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Are Akshaya Patra Kitchens What They are Made Out to Be? -Lana Whittaker

-TheWire.in In recent years, NGOs have become increasingly involved in supplying meals to schools as part of the government’s midday meal scheme, particularly in large urban areas. Akshaya Patra is the largest of these, currently working in 10 states, feeding 1.4 million children each day. Centralised kitchens are vast and impressive. Huge quantities of food are produced in a mechanised manner and in hygienic conditions. The shiny kitchens contrast starkly with...

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Taking a Movement Forward -Khadeeja Amenda

-The New Indian Express HYDERABAD: When Gummadi Prabhakar went back to his village in Nellore, he went for his usual stroll in the fields. Amidst the familiar bird chirp, crunch of leaves under his feet and smell of earth, Prabhakar heard the happy tune – music that fill his ears only when he visits home. A realisation stuck him – he should compile these songs. This is how dalitsong.com, one its...

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Sex ratio kills honeymoon dream in Gujarat -Himanshu Kaushik & Bharat Yagnik

-The Times of India AHMEDABAD/GANDHINAGAR: PM Narendra Modi may be the most famous 'bachelor' from Gujarat, but the state is home to 6.29 lakh unheralded men above 30 and 40 years who are unmarried - according to Census 2011. And the majority of them are not single by choice. The number is a manifestation of the skewed sex ratio in Gujarat, which has 919 women per 1,000 men and only 886 girls...

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‘Chemical farming destroyed Punjab, now MP should be cautious’ -Vivek Trivedi

-ETV/ News 18 Claiming that the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides destroyed Punjab in the two decades, volunteers from Punjab - once an agri-role model-have cautioned Madhya Pradesh against the same. These volunteers from Kheti Virasat Mission - a group of volunteer activists from different fields working in Punjab for promoting organic farming, said this while participating in Vikalp Mela as part of Bhopal gas tragedy's 30th anniversary events in...

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Health Service System in India: Is Insurance the Way Forward? -Chhavi Sodhi and Atif Rabbani

- Economic and Political Weekly Universalising health coverage is the current goal of the health service system in India. Tax-funded insurance for poor families is the method chosen for attaining this objective. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana was rolled out in 2008 for households below the poverty line, enabling them to access health services in the public and private sectors. However, experience from different countries shows tax-funded insurance systems work well...

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