KEY TRENDS • The 2019 India TB report says that the country accounted for a quarter of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden with an estimated 27 lakh cases in 2018. In 2018, the country was able to achieve a total notification of 21.5 lakh TB cases, of which 25 percent was from private sector. Majority of the TB burden is among the working age group. Nearly 89 percent of TB cases came from the age group 15-69 years....
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Forest and Tribal Rights
KEY TRENDS • As per the information collected by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) upto 31 October, 2017, 41,89,827 claims (40,50,131 individual and 1,39,696 community claims) have been filed and 18,24,271 titles (17,59,955 individual and 64,316 community claims) have been distributed. A total of 36,51,414 (87.15 percent) claims have been disposed off @@ • In the last 10 years, only 3 percent of the minimum potential of CFR rights could be...
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KEY TRENDS • During 2014-15, while procurement of foodgrains (rice and wheat) increased from 56.9 million tonnes to 60.2 million tonnes, offtake of foodgrains (rice and wheat) from the PDS decreased from 59.8 million tonnes to 55.9 million tonnes. Despite increased availability in the PDS and prevalence of high inflation in foodgrains, dependence on the PDS is reducing, suggesting that there may be issues of availability, timely availability and quality of the PDS foodgrains...
More »The Challenges of Managing a Hunger Crisis Amidst a Public Health Emergency -Ashwin Parulkar and Mukta Naik
-TheWire.in A Centre for Policy Research ground report points to a mass hunger crisis among MIgrant Workers in Delhi post-COVID-19 lockdown. It highlights the current disconnect between the government’s well-meaning responses to the crisis of hunger and health among the most vulnerable populations. The much-awaited relief package for the poor announced by the Union finance minister on March 26 in the wake of the COVID-19 related lockdown in the country has entirely...
More »Thousands At Delhi Bus Station Amid COVID-19 Risk, Wait For Ride Home -Chandrashekar Srinivasan
-NDTV/ Inputs from ANI With all public transport stopped, many left without food, shelter and income had been forced to undertake journeys for hundreds of kilometres on foot New Delhi: Amid the chaos, fear and uncertainty spreading across the country because of the COVID-19 outbreak, a distressing narrative emerged from Delhi on Saturday, when thousands of MIgrant Workers, left without jobs, shelter or money after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 21-day nationwide lockdown,...
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