-FirstPost.com One of the fears that has been raised in the aftermath of the government promulgating an ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act is that land will be taken away for other purposes and given that, the amount of land used for farming will come down dramatically. This is a very specious argument that is being made. Data from World Bank shows that around 60.3 percent of India's land area is...
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Guidelines for slum clusters redevelopment in a week
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The Union Government along with the Delhi Government will come out with guidelines in a week to improve the living conditions of residents of Delhi's JJ clusters, a statement from the Ministry of Urban Development said. All 685 such clusters will be taken up for redevelopment in the next five years, Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu, said, adding that Delhi needs to be made...
More »Huge disparity found in livestock Census and NSSO data -Jitendra
-Down to Earth This has happened in past surveys also, say experts The figures in the 19th livestock Census report and the recently released survey report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) don't tally. While the Census report that was released this September shows that number of sheep and goats stood at 200 million in the 2012-13, the 70th round of National Sample Survey showed a huge decline in their number...
More »More girls being born, but fewer surviving -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India There is good news and bad news on one of the key problems that haunts India - survival of the girl child. Sex ratio at birth, that is, the number of girls born for every 1000 boys born, has inched up from 906 to 909 between 2007 and 2013. This suggests that female feticide, the monstrous practice of killing off the girl baby in the mothers' womb...
More »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...
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