-The Indian Express Nearly three months after receiving the letter, the state is yet to take a call on the issue. Bhopal: Despite CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s known opposition to eggs, the Centre has written to Madhya Pradesh government to consider including boiled eggs in anganwadi meals and mid-day meal scheme to fight malnutrition. “Boiled eggs can be hygienic and a cheap source of protein required for children, expectant/ pregnant women and nursing...
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RTI gets a memorial in Rajasthan -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu Jaipur: Ironic though it may sound, a unique memorial celebrating the Right to Information has come up in the Beawar town of Rajasthan — where the RTI movement had started 20 years ago — at a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the State has opted to delete chapters on the evolution of RTI campaign and law from its school textbooks. Hundreds of people from all walks of...
More »India File: Whose line is it anyway? -Richa Mishra & Debabrata Das
-The Hindu Business Line The Narendra Modi government has shown intent in pushing for rural electrification, but the devil lies in the detail, write Richa Mishra and Debabrata Das Soon after taking over at the helm of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at a function in Solapur, Maharashtra. Sharing one of his visions, Modi said, “Many elections have been fought in our country on this issue and the issue is...
More »Teaching at the Right Level: The Government’s New Education Policy Must Include Solutions to Teach Students Basics -Gautam Patel
-CaravanMagazine.in In January 2016, the non-governmental organisation, Pratham Education Foundation and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which is headquartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched a scale-up program in Anantapur, a district in Andhra Pradesh that has the lowest learning levels in the state. The test, which was organised in conjunction with the State Government, was conducted between January and April. It aimed to assess the efficacy...
More »Drought cripples farm sector -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard The first two years of the Narendra Modi government were marked by big announcements that will take their time to materialise. The one sector that is unfazed by slogans is agriculture. The sector is crippled by back-to-back droughts coupled with a record fall in farm prices. A slump in global markets meant that agriculture exports, which could provide farmers alternative revenue, dried up. Agriculture and processed food exports from India...
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