-The Times of India NEW DELHI: On February 5, 2013, a Supreme Court bench, angry over 1.7 lakh missing children and the government's apathy towards the issue, had remarked: "Nobody seems to care about missing children. This is the irony." Close to one and a half years later, government data show over 1.5 lakh more children have gone missing, and the situation remains the same with an average of 45% of them...
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India mulls food agency reform as 255 million go hungry -Pratik Parija and Prabhudatta Mishra
-Live Mint Narendra Modi is set to form a panel to assess how to overhaul the 50 year-old Food Corporation of India, say sources About thirty miles from New Delhi, a stray dog walks among sacks of wheat rotting in a field. The grain is part of more than 3 million tonnes that India stores in the open exposed to pests and damp, enough to feed Kenya. Simple plastic sheets at the site in...
More »Rajasthan does a U-turn on free medicines, introduces insurance cover -Jyotsna Singh
-Down to Earth Vasundhara Raje government adopts targeted approach for the scheme which can now be availed only by beneficiaries of food security programme The Rajasthan government has downsized its much-acclaimed free medicines and diagnostics scheme, the Mukhyamantri Nishulk Dava Yojna, launched in 2011. The Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government has adopted a "targeted approach" in implementing the scheme which was a "universal" one when launched by the previous Congress-led UPA regime. Public...
More »Report: Women form half of agriculture workforce in state -Anisha Anand
-The Times of India PATNA: Bihar's agriculture sector is highly feminized, with 50.1% of the total workforce engaged in farming activities being women, says a report on women in the informal economy of Bihar, which was released on Friday at Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) here. The report has been compiled by SEWA Bharat's Special Task Force. The high rate of migration of men from Bihar over the past few decades has...
More »NDA, UPA failed to curb farmer suicides -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: During poll season, every political party's heart beats for the farmer. While AAP's Arvind Kejriwal brought out figures of farmer suicides in Gujarat, Narendra Modi repeatedly lamented about farmer suicides under UPA regime. However, a look at government data on farmer suicides since 1995 to 2012 shows that no party has succeeded in putting a stop to this scourge. In fact, in its previous stint in...
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