-The Times of India New Delhi: Tamil Nadu has taken the lead in skill training of urban poor in the past two years, followed by Madhya Pradesh and west bengal. The southern state has also left others far behind in providing financial assistance for setting up individual and group enterprises besides forming maximum number of self-help groups. According to a release of housing and poverty alleviation ministry, 4.54 lakh urban poor have...
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Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana data till april 25: Of 17.58 lakh candidates skilled, 81,978 get placed -Aanchal Magazine & Anil Sasi
-The Indian Express Ministry cites ‘incomplete data’ as primary reason for low placement numbers. “Kaushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat” — it’s with this slogan that the government had launched its ambitious Skill India Mission in July last year, but the transformation from Kaushal to Kushal seems to be faltering at the last mile. While the government claimed to have trained twenty lakh people under its flagship Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), which works...
More »India’s tea output up 8% -PS Sundar
-The Hindu Business Line Coonoor: Despite lower production in the South, the country’s overall tea output in the first four months of the current calendar has increased by 8.08 per cent over the same month last year due to a significant rise in the North. “The Tea Board has now released the data for April and our compilation shows that India produced 172.99 million kg (mkg) till April compared to 160.06 mkg...
More »The fruits of India's National Food Security law are finally showing on the ground -Anumeha Yadav
-Scroll.in Like Chhattisgarh earlier, now west bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh are covering over 80% rural poor under the ration system, and have reduced grain pilferage. Is the public distribution system in India irreparably dysfunctional, or can it effectively provide nutrition and economic support to the poor? In the last three years since the National Food Security law was passed, a number of state governments have expanded the provision of subsidised foodgrain, and the...
More »Kharif sowing begins as monsoon finally hits north, central India -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: After a delay of eight days, the monsoons have finally hit most parts of Maharashtra and central India. With this, sowing of kharif crops like paddy, cotton, maize, oilseeds and pulses, is expected to gather pace. Sowing is expected to peak by the last week of June and first week of July. After hovering over Karnataka coast around June 10-18, the monsoons have covered most parts of Maharashtra...
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