-The Hindu Groundwater meets three quarters of the State's farming needs The Punjab State Farmers Commission recently published a draft new agriculture policy for the State that envisages substantial crop diversification from paddy and wheat staples that the State has been growing since the sixties. The draft policy, currently being debated in agriculture circles, is the first serious road map to steer Punjab's agriculture towards a new dynamic, necessitated by a sharp...
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Hungry mothers, starving children-Mathangi Subramanian
-The Hindu Women are essential for the success of schemes like the mid-day meal programme. Improving their wages and working conditions would be better than blaming them when things go wrong. Mahatma Gandhi once declared, "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." By this yardstick, India does not fare well. Consider recent headlines alone: 23 Bihari children die after eating poisoned midday meals at their schools. Six-year-old...
More »How state lost out on job scheme funds
-The Telegraph Ranchi: Implementation of MGNREGS, the Centre's flagship scheme to provide employment to the rural populace, has not been up to the mark and has failed on several fronts in Jharkhand, the office of the accountant general has said. This meant funds to the tune of Rs 4591.47 crore, which could have been utilised in creating infrastructure under Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, besides providing more jobs to village people,...
More »Urban India more dissatisfied with UPA-II
-The Hindu Dip in Congress' vote share from SCs, STs, Muslims - its traditional support base Cities are driving the anti-UPA sentiment, while marginalised communities - the Congress' traditional base - are more satisfied than dissatisfied with UPA-II's performance. These findings emerge from a CNN IBN-The Hindu-election tracker poll of 19,062 demographically representative respondents. Just 38 per cent of respondents expressed satisfaction with UPA-II's performance (with 22 per cent undecided), down from 49...
More »Organised sector share in milk business should rise to 50 per cent: Sharad Pawar
-PTI NEW DELHI: To ensure sufficient supply of milk at affordable rates, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said there is a need to increase the share of organised sector in milk business to 50 per cent by the end of the current (12th) Five Year Plan in March, 2017. Despite severe drought in some states like Maharashtra this year, milk production has not reduced, thereby providing good supplementary income to farmers and...
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