-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: A NITI Aayog sub-group has suggested increasing the flexi-fund component of centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) to 25 per cent from the current 10. This would give more flexibility to States to spend on development and social welfare schemes, said Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Convenor of the NITI Aayog’s sub-group of Chief Ministers on ‘Rationalisation of Centrally-sponsored Schemes’, after submitting the report to Prime...
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Cut in RKVY Funds to Hit Agriculture Sector Hard
-The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: Implementation of several schemes including Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) in the farm sector will be affected because of the drastic cut in Central allocations. Other programmes to be hit by the Central decision include Rainfed Area Development Programme (RADP), National Food Security Mission (NFSM), National Horticulture Mission (NHM) and Sub-Mission for Seed and Planting Material (SMSP). Sources said the State Government will continue to implement the programmes...
More »Odisha rejects 'allowance' to school children instead of MDM
-PTI Bhubaneswar: Rejecting the Centre's decision of providing "allowance" to school children for mid-day meal (MDM), Odisha government today asked opposition BJP not to politicise the National Food Security Act to be implemented in the state from November 1. "Allowance to school children instead of MDM is not at all acceptable to the state. This will defeat the very purpose of the MDM for reduction of drop out rates. The Centre on...
More »Mid-day meals rules lay stress on quality, regularity -Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu The Centre notified the mid-day meals rules on Thursday, making running quality tests and sticking to nutritional standards mandatory. The State governments will be held accountable for non-delivery of service. The exhaustive guidelines to be followed by the States come days after 80 children fell ill after being served milk in a school in Agra. If a school fails to serve food to students for three consecutive school days or five...
More »Women in Indian Agriculture -Vivan Sharan and Prachi Arya
-Business World In the run up to Independence Day, Professor Ashok Gulati wrote a scathing critique of what he has described as “elitist biases in public policy”, that ignore the reality of the masses in rural areas. The reality he describes is that of low rates of growth in agriculture; a sector that majority of Indians still depend on. He lamented the excessive preponderance of economic policy discourse in the country...
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