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16 Apr

1/7. Indian Billionaires, now 140 in number, almost doubled their wealth in the pandemic year, says Forbes magazine, their combined worth reaching $596 billion (Rs. 44.5 trillion). In a year when GDP contracted 7.7 %. Story link at end of thread.
#Forbes #ambani #Farmers #COVID19

2/7. India’s 140 billionaires account for 0.000014 per cent of the population. But they hold wealth equivalent to 22.7 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product of $ 2.62 trillion, bringing that whole other meaning to the word 'Gross.'
#Forbes #ambani #Farmers #COVID19

3/7. The total wealth of our top 2 $ billionaires, Ambani ($84.5 billion) and Adani ($50.5 billion), is far greater than the gross state domestic product of Punjab ($85.5 billion) or Haryana ($101 billion) whose farmers they stand pitted against.
#Forbes #ambani #Farmers #COVID19

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8 Mar

1/6. International Women’s Day: remember this group for whom ‘there is always a lockdown.’ Over 80 per cent of Indian nurses are women. A brilliant story in PARI by Kavitha Muralidharan on nurses in Tamil Nadu. Story link at end of thread.
#WomensDay #healthworkers #COVID19

2/6. Nurses working in Covid-19 wards do so at very high risk. Thousands have contracted the virus in India these past 11 months, and several have died – but data on healthcare worker deaths from Covid-19 are notoriously unreliable.
#WomensDay #healthworkers #COVID19

3/6. Some nurses, themselves lactating mothers, have worked in wards taking care of pregnant mothers – and their babies – down with Covid-19. This means shutting themselves off from their own, often less than year-old children for long periods.
#WomensDay #healthworkers #COVID19

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P. Sainath

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6 Feb

1/6. Are those noisy Punjabis at Delhi’s gates “rich farmers?” The average monthly income of a farm household (avg. 5.24 persons) in that state was Rs. 18,059. Or a monthly per capita income of Rs. 3,450. (NSS 70th Round). Story link at end of thread.
#FarmersProtests

2/6. In Haryana: Farm household avg. 5.9 persons. Avg. monthly income Rs.14,434 or Rs. 2,450 per capita. That’s income from ALL sources: cultivation, livestock, wages/ salaries, non-farm businesses. Gee! Such wealth. What a ball these folks must be having.
#FarmersProtests

3/6. Sure they’re better off than farmers in, say, Gujarat: Farm household avg. 5.2 persons, Avg. monthly income Rs. 7,926 (or Rs. 1,524 per capita). All India average: farm household 5.1. Avg. monthly household income Rs. 6,426. Per capita barely Rs. 1,300
#FarmersProtests

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29 Dec 20

1/5. The Indian Jawan is a Kisan in uniform. And among the lakhs of peasants at Delhi’s gates is this group of 6 war heroes and veterans who have between them won over 50 medals in wars they’ve fought for India. (story link at end of thread)
#FarmersProtests #JaiJawanJaiKisan

2/5. “When we fought the wars, our parents were on the land, farming. Now our children are at the borders, and we do the farming,” says Colonel Jaswinder Singh Garcha (retd.), in his seventies.
#FarmersProtests #JaiJawanJaiKisan

3/5. ‘This is one of the world's biggest revolutions happening right now, at the gates of Delhi,’ says Brig. Gill (retd.), 72, soldier and farmer. ‘I fail to fathom why government is not repealing the laws, which it should have done already.’
#FarmersProtests #JaiJawanJaiKisan

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10 Dec 20

1/5. The farm laws exclude civil court jurisdiction and bar prosecution of officers of central and state governments, and also “any other person in respect of anything” if done “in good faith.” Hint: Any other person = corporations
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/and-y…
#Farmers #FarmerBills

2/5. And ““No civil court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any suit or proceedings in respect of any matter…” etc., These laws curb the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers. They undermine democracy, not just agriculture
#Farmers #FarmerBill2020

3/5. These are among the most sweeping exclusions of a citizen’s right to legal recourse since the suspension of fundamental rights during the Emergency of 1975-77. Art. 32 of the Constitution guaranteeing the right to legal remedies, stands undermined
#Farmers #FarmerBill2020

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P. Sainath

@PSainath_org

27 Nov 20

१/५ शेतकरी दिल्लीत पोचू नयेत यासाठी काटेरी तारा, आडकाठ्या आणि सीमा सुरक्षा दळ? भले. तर ही आहे, सहकारी संघराज्य प्रणाली. का दिल्ली दरबारी शेतकऱ्यांचा उठाव थोपवण्यासाठी हरयाणाच्या सुभेदारांच्या संगनमतात सहकारी सरंजामशाही?
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBills

२/५. दुष्ट बाजारसमित्यांपासून शेतकऱ्यांना ‘मुक्त’ करू पाहणारी तीन कृषी विधेयकं (कायदे नव्हे) आठवतायत? केंद्राने रेटलेली, माध्यमं, ‘तज्ज्ञ’ अर्थशास्त्र्यांनी वाहवा केलेली! हाय! तोच मुक्त शेतकरी आज (कधीच न) पोसणाऱ्याच्या मुळावर उठलाय.
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill

३/५. शासनाने तत्परतेने २९ कामगार कायदे केवळ चार सूचींमध्ये ‘सूचित’ केले. माध्यमं आणि तज्ज्ञांकडून परत वाहवा. आज तोच सक्षम कृतघ्न कामगार मुक्त शेतकऱ्यांच्या समर्थनात रस्त्यावर उतरलाय. संविधान दिनाच्या शुभेच्छा, प्रियहो.
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill

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