-IANS BHUBANESWAR: About six per cent of rural women in Odisha get married earlier than thelegal age of 18, according to the latest government survey released here Friday. The annual health survey conducted in 1,798 rural and 566 urban units comprising a total of 4,56,413 households and covering nearly 20 lakh people in the state revealed that the marriage of girls below legal age is rampant in rural areas. "It varies from 0.5...
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Bamboo ‘revolution’ to beat back Maoists
-The Hindu Amid reports that Maoists are against according bamboo rights to Adivasis in Gadchiroli, Union rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Chief Ministers of six Naxal-hit States to emulate the success of Mendha Lekha village in that Maharashtra district. Mendha Lekha became the first village with Community Forest Rights (CFR) to be given transit passbooks to harvest and sell bamboo in April 2011. Since then other villages in Gadchiroli...
More »Assam ethnic violence spreads to new districts-Prabin Kalita
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: The ethnic violence between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims, which sparked off in Kokrajhar on July 20 and soon affected neighbouring Chirang and Dhubri districts, has spread to new areas with fresh incidents of violence being reported from Baksa, Nalbari and Kamrup (rural) in the past 12 hours. There was no report of any loss of life. On Wednesday midnight, after miscreants set a Tata Nano car on...
More »Mendha Lekha model for Bengal and five-Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Bengal should follow in the footsteps of Mendha Lekha if it wants to beat back Maoists. And so should Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. That’s what rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has advised in a letter he wrote last week. Create “more Mendha Lekhas”, he said, referring to the Maharashtra village that gave villagers community rights over minor forest resource and transit permit to sell such produce. For thousands...
More »PM flags health mission, but policy still unclear-Rajeev Deshpande
-The Times of India PM Manmohan Singh gave the National Health Mission pride of place in his I-Day speech but a fierce policy row clouds the initiative, highlighting sharp differences over a major policy revamp that includes an ambitious plan for universal health coverage. Health ministry's unwillingness to pay anything more than lip service to a common health mission for urban and rural areas is a major flashpoint, although not the only...
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