-The Hindu Palakkad (Kerala): The Jharkhand State Child Rights Protection Commission (JSCRPC) will urge its State government to recommend a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the two incidents of alleged child trafficking in which 589 children from Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal were brought to Palakkad in Kerala. Talking to The Hindu here, commission member Sanjay Kumar Mishra said a CBI investigation was necessary as the case involved four States...
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Paddy procured, but price not given in Kuttanad -Radhakrishnan Kuttoor
-The Hindu State procured paddy in March, was to pay Upper Kuttanad farmers in 10 days Kerala: Paddy cultivators in the Upper Kuttanad belt are reportedly faced with serious financial crisis due to the government's failure to disburse the price of the paddy procured from them. The paddy harvest in this part of the State began in the first week of March. Though the government had started procuring threshed paddy from the peasants...
More »High Time Odhisha adopted rural housing policy-Manas Jena
-The Pioneer Bhubaneswar: Home is an integral part of life and determinant of standard of living and progress of society. Rural Odisha witnesses a very poor standard of habitation and lack of proper housing for lakhs of poor people who are dreaming of a house of their own to live with dignity. Socio-cultural barriers, landlessness and lack of credit for housing are some of the major reasons which deprive rural poor of...
More »Women’s Participation in NREGS Drops -Siba Mohanty
-The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: With women's participation in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on a decline in the State, the Odisha Government has asked the district collectors to adopt women-specific plans to reverse the trend. Apart from specific types of work which are favourable to women, facilities at the work sites and if possible, incentives must also be provided to district coordinators, the collectors have been told. In...
More »India’s Poor Face High Infant Deaths-KS Harikrishnan
-IPS News ATTAPPADI, India, May 4 2014 (IPS) - The death of a 10-day-old girl last November in the Attappadi tribal belt of Kerala, one of India's best performing states in terms of human development indices, shows how the country's battle against child mortality is far from won. The infant's mother, Saraswathy, a 20-year-old from the Kurumba tribe, was admitted to a government hospital, and delivered the next day. At 1.8 kg,...
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