-India Today Believe it or not, almost 70 per cent of the national Capital was used for organic farming in 2011-2012, according to National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF), which comes under the Ministry of Agriculture. While the total geographical area of delhi is 1.48 lakh hectares, NPOF data shows 100238.74 hectares (almost twice the size of Mumbai) was used for organic farming during that period. What smacks of data fudging and...
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International schools to be brought under national, state board -Rohinee Singh
-DNA If the HRD ministry has its way, it will become mandatory for all global and international schools operating in India to teach Indian spiritual values, nationalism and Indian political sciences in their curriculum. Currently, the ministry has no control over these schools. Till a few months back, it even had no information on their operating system. These schools, to operate in India, will now have to procure affiliation from a national...
More »Corporate Capitalism in the Name of Social Security -KP Kannan
-Economic and Political Weekly The many schemes that have been announced in the name of social security are limited in scope and the quantum of security they prefer. The promotional schemes will also be linked to the market and will benefit the insurance companies. In the meanwhile, basic social security programmes are either ignored or provided limited funding K P Kannan (kannankp123@gmail.com) is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New...
More »All-women police stations non-existent in most police stations -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Times of India NEW delhi: The Narendra Modi government last week approved 33% reservation for women in police forces of all union territories, including delhi, citing difficulties faced by women complainants to approach the male-dominated police force. However, most union territories, including delhi, do not even have a single women's police station even though the country has 518 of them. According to data collected by Bureau of Police Research and Development,...
More »India’s wheat area damaged from hail, potentially curbing supply -Pratik Parija and Prabhudatta Mishra
-Livemint.com About 12.1 million hectares of the 30.6 million hectares of wheat planted was damaged from the hail and rain on 1 March to 18 March New delhi: India's wheat crop may be smaller than the record forecast by the government after hailstorm this month damaged planted areas. About 12.1 million hectares of the 30.6 million hectares of wheat planted was damaged from the hail and rain on 1 March to 18...
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