-Livemint.com The latest round of NFHS-4 shows than even in wealthy states such as Tamil Nadu, about four out of every 10 married women experienced some form of spousal violence Mumbai: A week ago, minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi said that India cannot have a law to criminalise marital rape, citing various factors such as “level of education/illiteracy, Poverty, myriad social customs and values, religious beliefs, mindset of...
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Eastern states to benefit from new LPG scheme -Siddhartha P Saikia
-The Financial Express Govt may spend major chunk of Budget outlay in these states The Modi government would spend major portion of the Rs 2,000- crore Budget outlay for providing LPG to households below Poverty line in the eastern states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam. A senior official in the finance ministry told FE that the nodal petroleum ministry has proposed a detailed road map for the scheme aimed...
More »Why microfinance is fading out -M Sureshbabu and Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy
-The Hindu Business Line MFIs are unable to address the needs of self-help groups. They have been hit by the falling growth of SHGs There has been a long-standing debate on the ability and effectiveness of the formal banking system as a vehicle for financial inclusion. The thrust has been to increase the number of small banks, as they play a very important role in the supply of credit to small business...
More »Job scheme in decline -Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
-Frontline.in The increase in the budgetary allocation for the MGNREGA is only marginal. The scheme helped lower the Poverty level by 32 per cent between 2004-05 and 2011-12, but government support for it has been declining steadily. In the beginning, economists belonging to the Right and the Left were of the view that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was merely a populist measure. While the former believed...
More »'Agri Growth Can End Poverty'
-The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: Eminent agricultural economist Ashok Gulati on Monday emphasised on higher growth in agriculture sector for faster reduction of Poverty. Addressing the second Odisha Knowledge Hub (OKH) lecture series on ‘Getting agriculture back on track in the growth agenda of the Nation and State’ at the Secretariat here, Gulati said the agriculture sector has the potential to grow at five per cent per annum as against the present...
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