-Down to Earth The country will still have Plan documents but they would not adhere to a five year time period After abolishing the Planning Commission of India, the Narendra Modi government is now readying to say good bye to Five Yearly Planning (FYP) too. The Five Year Plan is a centralised and integrating national economic programme adopted soon after independence. Currently, the country has is following the 12th Five Year Plan for...
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One-third of West Bengal kids stunted & underweight, says NFHS-4
A French journalist once wrote: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Perhaps the same can be said about nutritional status of children in West Bengal at present in comparison to the past. At the time when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, was entertaining private capital in Singur and Nandigram, the rate of undernutrition was quite high in his state. A little less than...
More »India still has a high rate of malnutrition, reveals new National Health Survey -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth West Bengal has more wasted children than a decade ago Malnutrition in India is still high and the number of malnourished children in West Bengal is more than it was a decade back, according to the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), that was released recently by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The ministry released trends regarding major indicators of health issues for the 13 states...
More »Tribal affairs ministry gives in to pressure, ‘okays’ Village Forest Rules -Shruti Agarwal
-Down to Earth These rules, if implemented, will lead to dilution of the Forest Rights Act The campaign for rights under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, received yet another setback in November 2015, according to government orders which recently became available in the public domain. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), the nodal agency for the implementation of the Act, issued a memorandum endorsing the Village Forest Rules (VFR) notified...
More »Cabinet gives nod to new agriculture insurance scheme -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The new scheme will be unable to address the existing agrarian crises, say experts The Centre has approved a new crop insurance scheme for farmers that will replace two existing agriculture insurance schemes. The scheme, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, was cleared at the Cabinet meeting headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The new scheme promises less premium and early claim settlement. However, experts feel that it will unable to...
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