-Macroscan.org The recent labour force survey points to declines in all forms of work performed by women, including unpaid labour! Women are the worst casualties of the employment crisis in India. Please click here to read more. This article was originally published in the Business Line on February 25, 2020. ...
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Why Odisha's nutrition budget, the first in India, is a cut above the rest -Anupam Srivastava
-Down to Earth Odisha supports its nutrition agenda through agricultural policies, the public distribution system among others Odisha has become the first Indian state to draw up a nutrition budget in the country. The idea of a thematic budget for nutrition is a unique one in India where an inter-departmental approach is followed. Key participants in this approach include anganwadi centres, schools and health institutions. Additionally, Odisha supports its nutrition agenda through agricultural...
More »The hazards of pesticides -Devinder Sharma
-The Tribune Proposed Bill needs to make the industry pay for health damages AMIDST a hurricane of lawsuits that agrochemical multinational Bayer-Monsanto faces in the US and elsewhere over its herbicides Roundup and Dicamba’s alleged link to cancer, a joint investigation by Unearthed, a journalists’ research group founded by Swiss NGO Public Eye and Greenpeace UK, found that India tops the global chart with nearly 59 per cent of the sales being...
More »Brus vs non-tribal Bengalis: It's a clash among the displaced in Tripura -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu Following the agreement allowing some 35,000 displaced Bru tribal people to settle permanently in Tripura, tension is brewing between the Brus and the non-tribal Bengali residents who worry that they will become refugees in the State. Rahul Karmakar reports on the challenges to secure suitable land for both Anandabazar, a commercial centre in northern Tripura’s Reang tribal domain, means Market of Happiness. Given by Bengali refugees from present-day Bangladesh during...
More »Set to lose land for Ram statue plan in Ayodhya, villagers ask why their farms -Avaneesh Mishra
-The Indian Express The January 25 notice by the district administration mentioned 86 hectares and 259 landowners in the Yadav-dominated gram sabha, giving them 15 days to register objections. Officials said they had received close to 200 complaints, and the process to address them had started. Ayodhya: Nearly a month after the Ayodhya district administration put out a public notice saying close to 86 hectares would be acquired to build a Lord...
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