-The Hindu Governance performance ranked over a decade Regional disparity has been growing over the years, shows a new study which evaluates the governance performance of 19 major States. The research, conducted by Sudipto Mundle, Samik Chaudhury and Satadru Sikdar, was published in The Economic and Political Weekly earlier this month. Five of the six best-performing States in 2001 — Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab — continue to be the...
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National waterways project threatens Gangetic dolphins: Conservationists -Indrani Dutta
-The Hindu Conservationists blame increased human activity along habitat. Kolkata: Scientists and wildlife conservationists are seeing red over the threat posed to Gangetic river dolphins by the National Waterways project. The animal is protected under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and is a declared endangered species. The development of the Ganga for shipping is seen by wildlife conservationists as the single-largest threat to the survival of the species, whose...
More »9 states stall push for full rural connectivity by 2019 -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Nine states seem to be holding back India's race to achieve full rural connectivity by 2019 with Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and jharkhand topping the list, according to a central government assessment. The fear is that the ambitious scheme may have to be pushed beyond 2019, a politically significant date as the Modi government will be up for re-election then, despite recent improvements having taken daily...
More »Economist Dreze writes to Nitish, criticizes PDS in Bihar -Pranav Chaudhary
-The Times of India PATNA: "I am disappointed to find no further progress in the public distribution system (PDS) in the state", says noted development economist Jean Dreze in a letter addressed to the Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. In a letter to CM Nitish Kumar on Monday Dreze said: "As you know, we have been watching the PDS in Bihar with keen interest. We were impressed with the rapid improvements that...
More »Govt to link all ration cards to Aadhaar by end-FY17 -Nitin Sethi
-Business Standard Fingerprint failure reports of existing Aadhaar-linked PDS cases not revealed The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has decided to complete the linking the bank accounts to Aadhaar numbers of all the beneficiaries of large social schemes, including the National Food Security Act, by March 2017. Once done, the delivery of these schemes would be based on biometric authentication linked to Aadhaar or direct cash transfers to linked bank accounts of...
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