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BPCL to start community kitchen by R Vimal Kumar

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is to set up a community kitchen at the district headquarters hospital here shortly. The project is mooted as part of the Union Government's ‘Vision-2015' programme to make the domestic LPG available to the deprived sections of society wherever possible through the common LPG kitchen mode. The features of the scheme had been drafted by the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. BPCL Territory Manager...

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Pre-requisites for sustainable food security by MS Swaminathan

The goal of food for all can be achieved only through greater and integrated attention to production, procurement, preservation and public distribution. The President, in her address to Parliament on June 4, 2009, announced: “My Government proposes to enact a new law — the National Food Security Act — that will provide a statutory basis for a framework which assures food security for all. Every family below the poverty line in...

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Poverty’s definitional woes by Himanshu

Poverty estimates stumble on differing definitions of the household for statistical and policy purposes Officially, the Planning Commission accepted the Tendulkar committee’s report on revision of poverty estimates after the empowered group of ministers on food security asked the commission to issue a final estimate of poverty in the country. Despite the commission’s acceptance, the ministerial group asked it for another estimate of poor households. The simple reason is that the...

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Youngsters in certain parts of India today cannot choose their partners. If they still do and the choice violates arbitrary, extra-legal norms set down by caste panchayats, the consequence can be death. Isn't it time we built a popular movement against the medieval practice of honour killings, asks AMMU JOSEPH. A newly-wed bride and her mother-in-law were killed and the groom seriously injured by the girl's relatives in the Tarn...

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