-Moneycontrol.com India was supposed to be largely insulated from the war between Russia and Ukraine as far as PRIces of food items were concerned. However, there are signs that the conflict in Europe is adding to Indians' wheat bill. On APRIl 18, data from the commerce ministry showed India's Wholesale PRIce Index (WPI) inflation unexpectedly rose to a four-month high of 14.55 percent in March. And while energy and metals led the...
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Fertilizer subsidy bill set to touch record ₹1.65 trillion in FY23: Report -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com A revision in nutrient-based subsidy rates is crucial to sustain credit profiles of fertiliser makers, Crisil said New Delhi: The central government’s fertilizer subsidy outgo could touch an all-time high of ₹1.65 trillion in FY23, against the budgeted ₹1.05 trillion, due to an unprecedented rise in the cost of raw materials and PRIces of fertilizers globally, rating agency Crisil said on Thursday. A revision in nutrient-based subsidy rates is crucial to sustain...
More »In Wake of Ukraine War, India Set to See Rising Food Grain PRIces -Siraj Hussain and Shweta Saini
-TheWire.in The wholesale PRIce inflation for wheat in March was 14%. The retail PRIces will, therefore, reflect the same once the peak arrival season is over, in June 2022. Even the critics of India’s public distribution system (PDS) acknowledge that it worked well during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additional allocations of free food grains at 5 kg per person per month, under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), helped prevent mass hunger...
More »24 Children–Mostly Adivasi Girls–Go Missing in MP Every Day, But It Isn’t Considered An Extraordinary Situation -Ritwika Mitra
-Article-14.com More children go missing in Madhya Pradesh than in any other Indian state. The majority are Advasi. Despite chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s assurances that tracing missing children is a PRIority, police often do not file FIRs weeks after a child’s disappearance. When girls go missing a second or third time, FIRs are often not filed at all, as stereotypes about some communities hamper due process of law. Dhar, Madhya Pradesh:...
More »The historic injustice served to care workers by India’s highest court -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in Anganwadi staff are vital to ensuring the wellbeing of India’s children. Yet in 2006, the Supreme Court refused to recognise them as government employees. The government of Karnataka needed a hundred women. It was 1982, the new Integrated Child Development Services scheme was about to launch in the state, and according to the advertisement in the local newspaper, these work opportunities were available specifically for women who had completed Class 10. Ameenabi...
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