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Budget 2021: Rural poor, farmers progress to be govt s priority
Amid the coronavirus pandemic when the pace of manufacturing and services sector came to a grinding halt, agriculture and allied sectors in India have picked up pace as the country saw the strength of the farm sector.
The government also took care of a large population of the country related to agriculture and farming and enacted new laws to intensify the winds of improvement in the agricultural sector. The Budget 2021-22 is going to be presented in Parliament on Monday, amid wrangling over agricultural reform.
In such a situation, it is expected that the Modi government, which claims to give priority to the progress of villages, the poor and farmers, will also give priority to agriculture and rural development in the upcoming Budget.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an employment scheme for migrant workers on June 20, saying that during COVID-19 enforced lockdown the talent from cities returned to villages and it will now give a boost to development in rural areas. Launching the Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan , Modi said there are some people who might not appreciate efforts of villagers in the fight against coronavirus but he applauds them for their efforts.
Engineering student in Odisha working as MGNREGS labourer to fund studies ANI | Updated: Jan 28, 2021 08:19 IST
Puri (Odisha) [India], January 28 (ANI): Rosy Behera, 20, a civil engineering student in Puri has been working as a daily wager for the last three weeks to pay her college fees.
She has been been working in a road project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) near her home so that she can pay her college dues of Rs 24,500 to obtain her diplomatic certificate. After completing my diploma in Civil Engineering in 2019, I am not able to arrange funds for my Bachelor s degree. I also have to pay an outstanding amount of Rs 24,500 to the diploma school, Behera told ANI.
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Engineering Student From Odisha Working as Daily Wage Worker to Pay off College Dues
An engineering student in Puri works as a daily wager to pay her college fees. (Credit: ANI/Twitter)
Rosy, who has five sisters, comes out daily in the morning to the construction site to shovel soil and carry them to the site for road building.
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For 20-year-old Rosy Behera, education had promised to alleviate the poverty and misery that had so long dogged her and her family. But things seemed to have barely changed for the resident of Odisha s Puri district, who despite being a civil engineering student in Puri, was forced to work as a daily wage worker for a local road project under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) to pay the remaining fees of her private engineering college.
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Women involved in construction of water conservation structures under MGNREGS in Uttar Pradesh, India (Photo: Ritu Bharadwaj, IIED)
India supports 17% of the world’s population with only 4% of the world’s freshwater. Since 1950, water availability per family has fallen by 70% and 600 million people face acute water shortage. India, the UK and the Netherlands are exploring a collaboration to address this water security issue.
But this not just a
quantity challenge. As the disconnect between India’s central, state and sectoral priorities, limited staff and budget, and signs of emerging conflict over water sharing between states illustrate, this is also (as in many other countries) an issue of governance.