-The Hindu Business Line The rural job guarantee scheme is threatened by the undermining of its driving force, demand-driven work Is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) suffering a midlife crisis or are we staring at its death? From a budget of ₹401 billion in 2010-11, it has plummeted to ₹330 billion in 2013-14. Given the much higher wages currently offered to workers, it has taken a serious hit. The...
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MP registers highest infant mortality rate for 11th year in a row -Sravani Sarkar
-The Hindustan Times Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh is the worst place to be born in India - and it has been so for more than a decade. For 11th year in a row, the state has registered the highest infant mortality rate in the country, says the latest Sample Registration System report for 2013 released on Sunday by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. Infant mortality rate is the number of deaths...
More »Panel report demands giving more power to tribal village councils -Nistula Hebbar
-The Economic Times NEW delhi: As Jharkhand gets all set to welcome its first non-tribal chief minister in Raghuvar Das, a scathing report on the socio-economic and health parameters of Tribals in India has called into question the way tribal land rights have been dealt by the Indian state, and recommended far reaching changes in the way these issues are handled. The report, submitted by a high level committee headed by...
More »North India's cities the most polluted, south's cleanest -Dake Kang
-The Times of India NEW delhi: Almost all of the most polluted cities in India are located in the north with Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan dominating the list, according to a WHO report on the most polluted cities in the world published earlier this year. Incidentally, UP, Punjab and delhi also lie in the fog belt of northern India and there's evidence to show that air pollution is worsening the problem....
More »delhi High Court dismisses plea for supply of generic medicines -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu New delhi: While observing that the Court could not encroach into policy matters of the government, the delhi High Court has dismissed a public interest writ petition seeking directions to the Centre to make available generic medicines and medical treatment to the public at large at a reasonable cost. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw had earlier this week said that the Centre and...
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