-The Economic Times Nothing can be more ironic than to have food inflation at 18% (August 2013 over last August) in a country that takes pride in enacting the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and bestowing "the right to food" to 67% of its population by promising 5 kg cereals per capita per month (pcpm) at highly subsidised rates. Given that cereals consumption is 10.7 kg pcpm, people will have to face...
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London School of Economics hails Bihar's bicycle policy -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: London School of Economics' Ideas for Growth conference on Monday hailed the Bihar government's 'bicycles-to-girls' policy as one that can be imitated globally. Bihar witnessed a 30% increase in school attendance by girls in just one year, thanks to the bicycles policy. With a high school dropout rate among girls, the state government had rolled out the policy under which every 14-year-old schoolgirl was given money to...
More »Debate on rice: Make informed nutritional choices to gain maximum benefit from the food grain-Nandita Iyer
-The Economic Times It's hard to think of a cereal that is more intrinsic to Indian culture than rice. It journeys with us for a whole lifetime - with the first solid food a baby is traditionally fed during the annaprashan ceremony to sprinkling it over a deceased person's mouth during the last rites. A vast majority of the Indian population eats rice as its staple grain, similar to Asian countries...
More »ADB to lend India $500 mn for renewable energy project
-Reuters NEW DELHI: The Asian Development Bank will provide a $500 million loan to build a transmission system for solar and wind energy in western India, the bank said on Friday, a day after it announced a $400 million package for a water and sanitation programme in the eastern part of the country. The loans from the Manila-based bank come at a time when India is looking to boost dollar inflows to...
More »Women's education in India can bring down U-5 mortality by 61 percent: UNESCO-Trithesh Nandan
-Governance Now The UNESCO report, which points at a direct link between quality education for women and lower child mortality rates, will be released in early 2014 As India has one of the world's highest child mortality rates, the latest UN study says that rate would have been down by three-fifths had women in the country completed secondary education. "If all women in India had completed secondary education, the under-five mortality rate would...
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