-The Telegraph The Reserve Bank of India’s usual strategy of raising interest rates to hold inflation at bay kicked in a bit late and has not been working well so far In India, price inflation has been creeping up in the recent past. The latest data for June 2022 show consumer price index inflation to be 7.01% and wholesale price index inflation to be 15.18%. Food prices, which are an important component...
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Meet A Ramakrishnan from Theni -- warrior with RTI armour -Jeyalakshmi Ramanujam
-The New Indian Express In another incident, he got information that 13 engineers of Madurai Corporation were being promoted without proper documents. THENI: It’s 5 am on Saturday and A Ramakrishnan is busy packing his bags. He has to travel for long hours to educate a new batch of enthusiasts about the Right To Information (RTI) Act. This routine on Saturdays, over the past 14 years, has taken him across the State. The...
More »Beef back in midday meal for Lakshadweep’s schoolchildren -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Union Territory administration orders all schools to comply with a two-month-old Supreme Court order restoring meat to menu Bangalore: Beef and chicken are set to return to the midday meals for Lakshadweep’s schoolchildren, with the Union Territory administration on Friday ordering all schools to comply with a two-month-old Supreme Court order restoring meat to the menu. The archipelago administration had banned meat from the midday meals sometime after Praful Khoda Patel...
More »Lakshadweep to continue meat products in school mid-day meal after SC order
-MaktoobMedia.com The Union Territory (UT) administration of Lakshadweep has directed the school authorities to comply with a recent Supreme Court order, lifting the ban on chicken and other meat products from their mid-day meals. The Directorate of Education on Friday issued an order asking the “school principals of all islands and Headmaster Bitra” to comply with the top court order dated 02 May. The apex court directs the administration to continue serving the...
More »Doubling trouble: It’s mid-2022; is it good days yet for farm incomes? -Rajit Sengupta
-Down to Earth The Union government's claim about being on track to double farmers' income sounds hollow as it has not even spent the allocated budget for agrarian schemes in three of the past five years On February 28, 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to double farmers’ income by 2022-23—his gift to the country in its 75th year of independence. In the six years since then, the Union government has not...
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