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Patiala, July 4
During a lecture on “Financial crisis of Punjab: Causes and the way forward” held at Punjabi University on Friday, the state’s financial crisis was discussed from a historical perspective. Prof Sucha Singh Gill, an eminent economist and retired professor of the university, said the state needed a will on the part of political leaders and willingness of residents to pay taxes to get over its fiscal crisis.
Professor Gill said there were multiple reasons behind the ongoing situation and proposed a number of measures which could help resolve the crisis.
He said the culture of freebies must end in the state. Also, “The subsidies must be rationalised, tax compliance must be ensured, and measures should be taken to generate revenue from expanding urban areas,” he pointed out.
Invite farmers’ leaders for talks, eminent citizens tell government
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Long-drawn peaceful movement manifestation of deep-rooted agrarian crisis, they say
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Long-drawn peaceful movement manifestation of deep-rooted agrarian crisis, they say
As the stand-off between the agitating farmers and the BJP-led government at the Centre continues over the three farm laws, some eminent citizens have written to the Union government to invite the farmers’ leaders for a dialogue to end the stalemate.
The long-drawn peaceful movement against the laws, enacted at the time of COVID-19, is the manifestation of the persistent and deep-rooted agrarian crisis and farmers’ distress. In the understanding of the farmers, and rightly so, the implementation of these three laws would not only accentuate their crisis but would also pose a serious threat to their livelihood, they said in a joint appeal to the Union government.
Bathinda: In extension to its academic activities, the Central University of Punjab Bathinda (CUPB) under the patronage of Vice Chancellor Prof. Raghavendra P. Tiwari organized four-lecture webinar series & a panel discussion in which eminent personalities from academia enlightened students. This four-lecture webinar series was conducted by CUPB Dept. of Botany, Dept. of History, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Dept. of Financial Administration on relevant topics of their discipline. In addition to this, an online panel discussion programme on the subject of Union Budget 2021-22 was conducted by CUPB Dept. of Economic Studies.
In the first webinar Prof. Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Botany from Ashoka University, delivered a lecture on ‘Modeling Disease Spread’. In the second webinar Dr. Rachna Singh, Assistant Professor from Hindu College, University of Delhi, talked about ‘Deindustrialization in 19th Century India: Myth or Reality’. During the third webinar
Navjot Singh Sidhu
CHANDIGARH: The need to return to growing more crops than wheat-paddy – the way it was before the Green Revolution era – with an effective marketing policy and support for other crops was highlighted at a panel discussion on Wednesday.
The virtual panel discussion on ‘Future of Punjab Agriculture’ was organised by Sidhu on his YouTube channel ‘Jittega Punjab.’ “Small and marginal farmers, and not the corporate houses, who have to be the key pillar of the agriculture policy. There is a need to increase farmers’ income with diversification and organic farming. Punjab should cultivate what people of the state eat – pulses, oil seeds and other cash crops. We have to reinvent to return to the pre-Green Revolution era by dividing the state into zones,” said Sidhu.
A response to “Crop Residue Burning: Solutions Marred by Policy Confusion” (Sucha Singh Gill, EPW, 8 September 2018) discusses how in situ utilisation of crop residue is not only the best option, but also a feasible one, evident in the practices of organic farmers of even Haryana and Punjab, where residue burning is the most prevalent. Off-farm usage of crop residue may be better than burning as it addresses the issue of air pollution, but it is only the second-best option as it leads to soil fertility depletion.