-Livemint.com Data shows India’s sex ratio worsening, no clear picture of improvement in districts under the Beti Bachao scheme New Delhi: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan to announce the nationwide expansion of the government’s flagship Beti Bachao scheme on Thursday, the choice held a lot of symbolic import. Jhunjhunu, part of the initial 100 districts chosen for a targeted launch of the scheme in early 2015, has catapulted...
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After Universalising PoS and Iris Readers for PDS, AAP Govt Approves Doorstep Delivery of Rations -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Food rights group says this is just a changing of goalposts, questions why rules have not been formulated and state food commission not constituted despite court nudge. New Delhi: Though in order to overcome the problem of exclusions faced due to Aadhaar-linked Point of Sales (PoS) machines installed at ration shops, the Delhi cabinet today approved the scheme for doorstep delivery of rations under the Public Distribution System, food rights activists...
More »The public data office is here
-The Hindu Business Line Promises to do for data what PCOs did for voice calls decades ago Mumbai: Gone are the days when consumers would walk miles to get to a Public Call Office (PCO) booth to make telephone calls. With mobile telephony covering every corner of the country, an affordable conversation is now only a button away, and the PCO box has all but disappeared. Now, with huge demand for internet services,...
More »Jhunjhunu goes from worst sex ratio to the best in Rajasthan -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The 2011 census brought Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan the ignominy of being the district with the lowest sex ratio of 837 girls per 1,000 boys among 33 districts of the state. Seven years on, the district is being hailed as a model with the sex ratio at birth (SRB) touching an impressive 955 girls per 1,000 boys. It is from here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will...
More »Food minister defends DBT
-The Telegraph Ranchi: Food and civil supplies minister Saryu Roy on Tuesday said there was "nothing wrong" in direct benefit transfer (DBT) piloted in Nagri block, against which beneficiaries, Opposition and activists staged a Monday padyatra to Raj Bhavan, citing mass glitches in cash transfers to banks. Roy said he reached this conclusion after carefully analysing PDS supplies in Nagri. "I want to say that 83 per cent beneficiaries are smoothly getting ration...
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