-The Hindu Business Line Ahmedabad: Ahead of the kharif sowing season, Gujarat is facing a cash shortage as banks have started receiving lesser cash than required from the RBI. This has resulted in the Rationing of cash disbursements at several banks in parts of Gujarat, mainly in the north. Banking sources confirmed experiencing cash shortage at the currency chest level from where the disbursement of cash takes place to the bank branches. There...
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Food for thought: do Attappady community kitchens serve the needy? -KA Shaji
-The Hindu Amid criticism from SC/ST panel, experts say project must continue Now in her late twenties, Veeramma Selvan of Thekkekadampara tribal hamlet in Sholayur gram panchayat of Attappady has reasons to believe that her gods have stopped smiling. It was in January last year that she lost her five-month-old, underweight son Balu — her fourth child — allegedly due to milk aspiRation. (a medical condition in which the mother's milk goes...
More »Society must take a view on GM mustard: scientist -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu ‘Commercial release of the seed is a socio-political issue’ “The commercial release of genetically modified mustard wasn’t merely a scientific issue but a ‘socio-political one’ that required the understanding of a wide section of society,” K. VijayRaghavan, 64, Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) said in an interview. He was formerly Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, that had funded the development of the seed. While the transgenic plant has been cleared for commercial cultivation...
More »'Skill India' urgently needs reforms -Santosh Mehrotra & Ashutosh Pratap
-The Hindu There is no way the country can reap its demographic dividend without fixing vocational education Salvaging the Indian demographic dividend must be a key part of India’s growth story. In 2016, the Government of India formed the Sharada Prasad Committee to Rationalise the Sector Skill Councils (SSCs), which are employer bodies mostly promoted by the FedeRation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the ConfedeRation of Indian Industry and other...
More »Soon, real-time e-database of Ration cards to weed out fakes -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The central government will soon set up a real-time online database of Ration cards and the beneficiaries under the national food security scheme to end any possibility of anyone procuring a fake or more than one Ration card from any part of the country. The system will also enable lakhs of migrant workers to get subsidised foodgrains irrespective of the place from where the cards...
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