-The Hindu Classes 1-5 to benefit; this is among 5 schemes announced Chennai: On the occasion of the DMK Government of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin stepping into its second year on Saturday, the State was richer by five new development schemes. Mr. Stalin made the announcements in the Assembly. The schemes are a free morning breakfast scheme for Government school students, a scheme to eradicate nutrition deficiency, establishment of schools of excellence...
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Indian farmers benefit from a sharp increase in exports; Government cuts procurement for welfare programmes - PK Krishnakumar
-Moneycontrol.com Global buyers have turned to India, the second-largest producer of wheat, after the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia and Ukraine together accounted for 30% of the global wheat supply. Indian wheat farmers are earning more this year, thanks to a sharp increase in exports after the February 24 start of the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, which has disrupted global supply chains. Prices have exceeded the Government-fixed minimum support price (MSP)...
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-Hindustan Times Going by WHO’s estimates, India’s true death toll due to Covid-19 comes to approximately 10 times the 481,000 Covid-19 fatalities recorded till December 31, 2021. The World Health Organization’s estimates that 4.74 million lives were lost in India due to Covid-19 is flawed, the Union Government said on Thursday with a rebuttal pointing out four major grounds on to dispute the finding. Going by WHO’s estimates, India’s true death toll due...
More »Will implement CAA when Covid pandemic ends: Amit Shah in Bengal
-Hindustan Times Although the controversial law was passed in 2019, the rules on how it is to be implemented have not been framed yet, and the Government has said this will happen once the pandemic ends. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be enforced as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic gets over, Union home minister Amit Shah said in West Bengal on Thursday, accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state of...
More »Statistics of poverty suffer from the country’s poverty of statistics -Himanshu
-Livemint.com India’s lack of official data for estimates could impair policy formulation and thus hurt the economy Two different sets of poverty estimates for India were released recently. One of the papers was authored by Surjit Bhalla, Karan Bhasin, and Arvind Virmani and the second by Sutirtha Roy and Roy Weide, both affiliated to the World Bank. Both presented estimates for roughly the same period, after 2011-12, but ended up at starkly...
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