&NBSp; Despite the provision of free school uniforms to be given to school children aged 6-14 years under the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, when it comes to education department of Uttar Pradesh things are happening in the wrong way. Officials working in UP's education department demand for commissions from uniform suppliers, reveals a Cobra Post sting. In order to know more, please read the press release from Cobra...
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Tribal women farmers in TN hills managing weather stations
-PTI KOLLI HILLS: Women tribal farmers are helming many community managed automatic weather stations at various agro-ecological zones here that could be game changers for the region in providing timely and accurate forecasts and ensuring food and nutrition security. Of the seven automatic weather stations in the hill ranges here, four are run by women and three by men with all of them being tribals and farmers.The AWS provide meteorologic information with...
More »Inequality is bad for growth -Himanshu
-Livemint Tackling inequality and inclusive growth is an economic necessity for the country After Pope Francis, it is now the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise concerns about high income inequality. Dubbed as “Francis the Marxist”, for his tweet “Inequality is the root of social evil”, the Pope has been raising issues of inequality and its consequences. The latest discussion paper by IMF not only supports the ethical...
More »Right to Food ensured by this Roti Bank -Surabhi Katyal
-TheBetterIndia.com A group of 5 elders and 40 youth have begun an initiative to provide food to over 400 people by collection and distribution in one of the country’s poorest districts. Poverty is a big bad monster that India is facing and one of its subsequent results in hunger. People constantly underestimate it. Though I have heard quite a few people say that&NBSp; one should consider oneself privileged to be able to...
More »One child dies every minute of severe acute malnutrition. How can India save them? -Ruhi Kandhari
-Scroll.in The government is yet to frame policies on how to tackle severe acute malnutrition but non-profits have started experimenting with community-based models. Nurses call him "the boy who lived." Severely dehydrated, unconscious and weighing no more than two kilos, lighter than a healthy new born, one-year-old Subhash was brought to the Darbhanga Medical College in Bihar in February. Admitted to Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit, he was administered glucose, therapeutic milk...
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