-Down to Earth More than half of the degraded land in the country is either rainfed farmland, responsible for the Food security of the country, or forest land that offers the best defenc With close to 30 per cent of its geographical area already affected, land degradation is definitely among India’s most pressing environmental problems. To make matters worse, almost all Indian states have recorded an increase in degraded land in the...
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Junior union minister refuses to increase paltry pension under NSAP -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph India spends only 0.04 per cent of its GDP on social security pension; several states add to the pension from their own funds Sulochana Behera eagerly waits for her old-age pension of Rs 500 every month at her home in Garh Nipania village in Puri district, Odisha. Within hours of receiving the sum, the widowed Sulochana spends it all on medicine and Food that barely last a week. She then starts...
More »Poor wages, punishing hours, and lack of labour rights make Food delivery a thankless gig -Serish Nanisetti
-The Hindu Gig work is commonly described as the ‘future’ of employment, but its exploitation of delivery riders reveals a dark underbelly of low wages and no rights Receive order. Pick up Food. Reach customer location. Deliver. Get ₹35 per batch and ₹20 per order. This was the daily drill for 20-something Varadarajan, a Food delivery executive in April 2018, when he started working in Chennai. For each order, the distance was...
More »Kerala’s Left Government Takes Right Decision for the Poor During Pandemic -Azhar Moideen
-Newsclick.in Pinarayi Vijayan’s government is supplying Food kits and distributing social security pension to ensure no one remains hungry or destitute The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is supplying Food kits and distributing social security pension as celebrations for the harvest festival of Onam, which falls on August 21, have already started. Despite the Opposition’s criticism of these measures in the light of the daily spike in Covid cases, the Pinarayi Vijayan government...
More »Mapping exercise rectifies errors for NFSA families
-The Hindu As many as 25 lakh mistakes rectified during the first phase An exercise launched in Rajasthan for mapping and seeding of beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) has led to rectification of errors relating to over 7 lakh families in 95 blocks. After the completion of first phase, the upcoming phases of the exercise will be run in a “mission mode”. State Food and Planning Secretary Naveen Jain said...
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