THE Democratic Youth Federation of India will stage a protest demonstration outside the Delhi chief minister’s residence on September 12 on various issues related to employment and healthcare. At a press conference on September 7, the DYFI Delhi unit leadership laid out details of the proposed agitation. The press conference was addressed by DYFI Delhi unit president Sanjay Singh, secretary Aman Saini and treasurer Anusha Paul.

Coordinated Attacks on CPI(M) Offices & Cadre across the State1. In Udaipur town, on September 8, there was a pre-scheduled programme of the DFYI on the slogan “Where is my Job”. This programme had already obtained permission from the competent authority. The police, from the previous day, was insisting the organisers to cancel the programme. But they stuck to their programme. On the way to the programme, many participants were attacked by the BJP miscreants. While the procession was about to start, the police did not allow it to proceed.

AUGUST 26, 2021 marked the completion of nine months of the historic farmers' movement, with peaceful protests that involved lakhs of farmers and their supporters at Delhi's borders, and throughout the country. This unparalleled movement has brought to the forefront of public debate in India the issues of farmers and their future squarely. It has helped farmers regain an identity of dignity in the nation's polity.

On August 30, thousands of peasants from the backward Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra, held an impressive rally at the State Agricultural Commissioner's office at Pune. They were demanding crop insurance compensation worth crores of rupees to lakhs of peasants who had paid their premium under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for the Kharif season 2020, had suffered tremendous crop losses due to excessive rains, but had not received any compensation at all from crop insurance companies.

JUNIOR Minister for Rural Development in the central government, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ruled out in parliament any increase in the amount of monthly pension given by the centre to the elderly under the National Social Assistance Programme (The Telegraph, August 22). The amount currently being given to each beneficiary under this programme is a princely sum of Rs 200 per month for persons between ages 60 and 79, and Rs 500 per month for persons of 80 years and above!It is a shame and a disgrace that the central government offers such an utterly paltry sum to aged citizens.