-The Business Standard Agriculture dept has begun the process of collecting data on farmers and their lands Mysore (Karnataka): Process is on to provide unique identification numbers, similar to ‘Aadhaar' issued by the Unique Identification of Authority of India, to farmers in Karnataka. Under the scheme, all details about farmers and their lands, collected under the ‘K-Kisan' scheme, will be pooled and a unique identification number like the ‘Aadhaar' will be issued to...
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Direct Benefits Transfer scheme finds no place in Cong’s campaign-Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express According to sources, DBT barely figured in the party's manifesto consultation process or during discussions After launching it with much fanfare and touting it as the next electoral game-changer, the Congress seems to have distanced itself from its ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme. There has also been a discernible dip in the UPA government's interest in the scheme, which has manifested itself in no review meetings having taken...
More »Revamping agriculture and PDS-Ashok Gulati
-Live Mint To alleviate poverty and extend true food security to its people India must bring efficiency to public expenditures In the Indian economy, where almost half of the average household's expenditures goes toward food and half the labour force is engaged in agriculture, one cannot simply wish away the centrality of agriculture just because its contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) hovers around a comparatively low 14%. India's agriculture is responsible...
More »Annshree scheme ends, ration from May -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The curtains are down on former chief minister Sheila Dikshit's Annshree Yojna. The over one lakh beneficiaries will be enrolled for the food security programme, and the ration is expected to be supplied from May 1. The cash-for-food scheme was the first such project of the Delhi government launched by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in December 2012 to promote the UPA's idea of cash transfer as...
More »First Aadhaar card owner struggles for a living -Pravin Nair
-The Hindustan Times Tembhli, Nandurbar: She got the country's first Aadhaar card. But after around four years, Ranjana Sonawane is disillusioned. "We have no money. No jobs. Just a card," she says. "How will I eke out a living with a card?" On September 29, 2010, Ranjana and nine other tribal residents of Tembhli village in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, were given the cards at the launch of the Aadhaar programme by...
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