Building a viable value chain for pulses
Pulses output Rapid strides - THE HINDU×
Boosting production and consumption of pulses is beneficial for both the nutrition and sustainability factors
The rapid strides taken by India in pulses production is the less talked about success story of the decade. Overall pulses production reached a high of 231.5 lakh tonne (lt) in 2019-20, against 146.4 lt in 2009-10. With imports coming down to 11 per cent of availability during 2019-20, we are now largely self-sufficient.
This significant increase in production is a commendable feat by the farmers. Regular procurement of pulses at Minimum Support Price (MSP) and focus on increased production and productivity have played a critical role in providing remunerative prices and an assured market to the cultivators.
National Retail Policy: Allow retailers to be registered as MSME, RAI asks Centre
RAI in its pre-budget representation mentioned that Centre needs to put some efforts to boost the retail industry to save millions of jobs in the upcoming budget.
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The Retailers Association of India (RAI) requested the Union government on January 15 to accelerate the formulation of the National Retail Policy. Apart from this, the retail industry body also urged the Centre to allow retailers to be registered as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) to avail benefits.
RAI, in its pre-budget representation, has mentioned that the Centre needs to put some efforts to boost the retail industry to save millions of jobs in the upcoming budget.
The Department of Consumer Affairs in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution issued Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules 2020 (“E-commerce Rules 2020”), which came into force on 23 July 2020.
These Rules have been a topic of discussion for quite a while. The Government, in 2019, released the draft Consumer Protection (e-Commerce) Guidelines, 2018. These guidelines were to apply only to the Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce entities. Then in November 2019, the Central Government released the Consumer Protection (e-Commerce) Rules 2019. The E-commerce Rules 2020 can be said to be similar to the rules that have come before it, but, some new obligations have been imposed on the e-commerce entities.
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Complaints Rise To 7772 In 2020: ASCI
The largest contributor to the violations in 2020 has been the education sector (2000) followed by healthcare (787)
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The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) complaints team looked into 7,772 (4683 direct + 3089 suo moto) complaints against advertisements in 2019-20, as compared to 6,226 complaints in 2018-19. Of these 7772 advertisements, the independent consumer complaints council deliberated on complaints pertaining to 3773 advertisements. Most of these pertained to Chapter I violations (3,483)- the advertisements were considered misleading, making false or unsubstantiated claims. 57 advertisements complained against, were ruled to be offensive or indecent. Further, 341 advertisements complained against were encouraging or depicting a dangerous practice and 25 advertisements were unfair in competition.