-The Hindu In RTI reply, Health Department contradicts its earlier stand Palakkad: Contradicting its own earlier stand that malnutrition was the major reason behind continuing infant mortality in Attappady, the Health Department has stated that no malnutrition-related death was reported from any of the 192 tribal hamlets in the region since January 2013. In a Right to Information (RTI) reply to social worker R.J. Rajendraprasad, the District Medical Officer (DMO) claimed that no...
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Millions of farmers don’t have safeguards against climate change impact -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times The impact of climate change on India’s agriculture is more evident than ever before, but millions of small and marginal farmers do not have adequate safeguards, said a study released on Friday. The country’s farm sector is considered highly vulnerable to shifts in weather patterns as half of the cropland is dependent on rainfall, drawing around 60% of the farmers to the core of the climate-proofing debate. Climate change increases frequency...
More »Rural distress: Droughts in food bowl likely to push farmers to cities -Komal Amit Gera
-Business Standard Drop in wheat acreage evidence of stress in agriculture Chandigarh: Two consecutive drought years have led to rural distress in the food bowl states. At some places, this has become even worse due to the attack of the white pest. Sahiblal Shukla, a farmer in Chitrakut in Uttar Pradesh , who has spent his lifetime in ploughing fields says that, “farmers in Bundelkhand area of the state may soon pack their...
More »Paddy fields dry up, farmers leave home to find work -Mazhar Ali
-The Times of India Chandrapur: The paddy fields around Bormala, a village with population of over 1,500 in a far corner of Saoli tehsil, lay barren as none of the farmers has dared to take the crop this year due to lack of rain. Having only what is left of last year's yield to eat and no work in their fields, most of the men and women go to neighbouring Gadchiroli...
More »Not enough takers for the toilet? Over half of toilets built under Swachh Bharat unused
-FirstPost.com More than a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet Swachh Bharat campaign was launched across the country, Statistics appear to be making it increasingly clear that the focus of the campaign needs to be more than merely constructing toilets. A survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has revealed that not even half the toilets built as part of the campaign are being used, according to a...
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