Cash, on delivery: How India has taken up DBT in the times of COVID-19

India has employed its direct benefit transfer system to help people tide over the ongoing health and economic crises. Its real test will begin …

Budget 2023-24: Subsidy schemes slashed by Rs 1,59,000 crore

LPG subsidy cut by 75 per cent, food subsidy by 31 per cent, fertiliser subsidy by 22%

Food Systems Summit: ‘Supports to farmers keeping the world away from SDGs and the Paris Agreement’

United Nations calls for repurposing and reforming price-distorting and environmentally harmful supports to farmers

WTO talks end with no consensus on agriculture support

Negotiations on fisheries “came close” to a deal but one or two or two matters could not be reached

On the world’s largest and longest UBI experiment

The experiment is ongoing in 'sequestered' 200 villages in Kenya for the next eight years and India has some lessons as it plans for a similar scheme

Clean(er) cooking in India: Country should explore e-cooking but address these challenges before switching

Lack of a reliable power supply is a major challenge to e-cooking adoption

Budget 2020-21: Expect direct benefit transfer for urea

Move to aim at controlling excessive urea usage and promoting zero-budget farming

Agriculture sector not responsible for discoms’ health, declining groundwater: study

While power consumption in agriculture is overestimated, a number of factors influence groundwater extraction

Farmers need support, period

It is time we talked about the real cost of our food, about how to benefit farmers who grow our food

Rich nations should reduce trade-distorting farm subsidies by 2019: India, China tell WTO

The countries say that talks on further discipline on domestic support can only happen after harmful subsidies are reduced

Bihar farmers question government decision to end diesel subsidy for them

Power supply in villages still uncertain, they say

Centre, Bihar take stock as state edges towards drought

Last year, no steps were taken by the central government despite drought being declared in Bihar and Jharkhand  

Electric two-wheeler subsidy cut to hurt mass adoption of EVs

Lower subsidy will reduce consumer interest and adoption, and will hurt the entire industry for a considerable time

Ecuador annuls austerity decree, restores fuel subsidy

Decree 833 will be replaced with a new one that contains mechanisms to focus resources on who needs it most, said President Lenín Moreno

Maharashtra doubles input subsidy for farmers, citing extreme weather events

Maharashtra farmers skeptical about doubling of input subsidy by state government; say benefits hardly accrue to them

Ujjwala: Over 9 million beneficiaries did not refill cylinder last year, Centre admits

The prices of LPG are skyrocketing even as there has been a sharp reduction in the subsidy given for it

Independent India @ 75: It has taken a lot to be food-secure

From begging other countries for food to overflowing grain stocks, it has been a long journey; however, the government must adopt environment-…

Ujjwala scheme successful in terms of number, but is it the same in its intent?

Distributing LPG connection is a job half done as ensuring its sustained usage is a bigger challenge that the government is currently facing

Bad policy decisions in 2018 impacted renewable energy growth: Report

In India too the new investment in the sector decreased by 16 per cent compared to 2017

Union budget 2022-23: Big cut in fertilisers subsidy to worry farmers

Urea subsidy cut 17%; allocation for NPK subsidy reduced 35% 

Creative accounting, window dressing apart Centre's COVID-19 relief package 0.5% of GDP: Jean Drèze

The Centre announced a relief package recently and a few other interim measures after the 21-day nationwide lockdown to combat COVID-19 left …

China's loss to US in WTO is not good news for India

India calculates subsidy the same way as China, which lost the case for giving too much subsidy to its wheat, rice farmers

Can India ensure smooth sail for corporate buyout of renewable energy?

The Centre needs to facilitate, standardise the corporate buyout of renewable energy projects and simultaneously ensure security, stability of …

UK after Brexit: farm subsidy could be significantly reduced to comply with WTO rules

Being an EU member state, the UK had been insulated from WTO rules that dictate the size of subsidies and how they are paid

CACP recommends Centre to bring urea under NBS regime to check overuse

Disproportionate use of urea in agriculture over the years has been one of the primary reasons for worsening plant nutrient imbalance