Most of the respondents in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala prefer an effective PDS to cash transfer. THE survey of the public distribution system (PDS) in nine States, of which I was a part in Himachal Pradesh (Sirmaur district), Uttar Pradesh (Jaunpur district) and Kerala (Wayanad district), came as an eye-opener to me on many counts. If Himachal Pradesh stood out for the innocence of its people, Uttar Pradesh...
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FDI in multi-brand retail still on govt’s mind: FM
-The Times of India Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday that opening up of the multi-brand retail sector to foreign investment was still on the "mind of the government" and it would be pursued once consensus emerged among political parties and other stakeholders. Mukherjee blamed lack of consensus among political parties for the government's inability to implement the reform measure but said it did not reflect the lack of intention or...
More »MGNREGA governing body opposes legal challenge to minimum wage ruling by K.Balchand
The United Progressive Alliance government's decision to challenge the Karnataka High Court's ruling on payment of minimum wages to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act came under attack from the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the body that governs the programme. And Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the “atmospherics associated with filing of a special leave petition [in...
More »Literacy drive to benefit tribals
-The Deccan Chronicle Adult education authorities are going to take up a literacy drive to benefit 29,500 illiterate tribals in the Agency areas in both East and West Godavari districts from January. The Central scheme called Sakshara Bharat meant to promote literacy mainly among women in 18 districts is already launc-hed and the three districts of East and West Godavari and Krishna were excluded from the programme as the literacy rate...
More »Food inflation at four-year low of 1.8%
-The Business Standard Economists question veracity of the data; say too early for RBI to cut rates. Food inflation for the week ended December 10 fell to a four-year low of 1.81 per cent, after declining to 4.35 per cent last week. The decline is much sharper than what Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu expected — he had predicted less than three per cent food inflation by early January. What’s more, many...
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