-The Hindu The underprivileged have raised their voice for effective implementation of the National Food Security Act New Delhi: Ahead of the Delhi government Budget, the city’s underprivileged have raised their voice for effective implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the Capital and demanded an increase in its budgetary allocation. Representing hundreds of poor people in Delhi, NGO Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyaan met over 20 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs to...
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Understanding the economy of ageing -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu The Longitudinal Ageing Study of India is to follow the health and socio-economic condition of 60,000 Indians over the age of 45 for at least 25 years and report on how growing old affects the country Half of India’s over 1.2 billion population is 25 years or younger, with only about nine per cent over 60 years. Over the next three decades this is expected to balloon to 20 per...
More »The woman who electrified a village and took on a mafia -Salman Ravi
-BBC Kalawati Devi Rawat is known as the woman who brought electricity to her remote village in the hills of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, writes BBC Hindi's Salman Ravi. It was the early 1980s and she had just been married and moved to Bacher village to live with her husband. The village had no electricity and she found life tough once it got dark in the hills. One day, she led a...
More »After the windfall -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth The Centre has promised more money to panchayats, but there is many a slip between cup and lip Like last year, the budget for the financial year 2016-17 also had a much-desirable provision. Last year, the government had increased the share of states in the Central divisible pool by 10 per cent after accepting the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission. This year, the government has accepted another big...
More »Waterless in Marathwada: Farm crisis is extra hard on women -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-total crop failure goes into a tailspin. Beed/ Osmanabad: About 65 kilometres from the cracked earth that was once their source of income, Mandakini Mujmule, in her forties, and her daughter Anita, 21, have spent 16 days in Beed city’s government hospital. Mandakini has...
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