-Outlook Social indices topper Kerala just can't stop the baby deaths in its malnutrition-hit tribal Attapady belt Under the thick canopy of a peepal tree, beside the road that winds to Pallur Ooru in Attapady in the Western Ghats, is a small tribal burial ground. There are no tombstones to mark the graves and on closer look one sees tiny mounds where the mud has been disturbed. In a quiet corner,...
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The poisoned plate
-The Hindu The fatal consequences of having a routine midday meal for at least 22 children in Bihar's Saran district expose the chronic neglect of school education in a large part of India. That governments cannot find a small piece of land for a school and are unable to store food materials without the risk of contamination is a telling commentary on their commitment to universal primary education. The Bihar horror...
More »When Leelabai runs the farm-P Sainath
-The Hindu In a region of poor yields, a gritty woman farmer succeeds even in years of crop failure. But high costs are depleting Vidarbha's success stories "I am the farmer, he did no farming. He only moons over his cattle, he loves those cows (even if they yield just a litre of milk each). Men hang around the village, women are in the fields." Leelabai is speaking of one of Yavatmal's most...
More »Robust TN model food for Sonia's thought -Shyam Balasubramanian
-The New Indian Express Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has emerged among the strongest voices against the Food Security Bill, which is being pushed by the UPA government. She recently wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to exempt Tamil Nadu from the implementation of the ordinance that brought the Food Security Bill into force. Apart from the political overtones that such a request might be seen to have,...
More »Abortions in Mumbai up by alarming 61% in 3 years -Sanjeev Shivadekar & Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The city has seen an alarming 61 % rise in the number of abortion cases over the past three years, according to the BMC statistics received by the public health department. The city recorded 27,256 abortions in 2012-13 against 16,977 abortions registered in 2010-11 , reveals the BMC data on abortions conducted in public and private hospitals in its jurisdiction. But government officials find nothing suspicious in this...
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