-Scroll.in Administrations are not supposed to cut off rations but health officials seem to think that the threat will work. Experts denounce the measure. “Tikkakaran nahin toh khadyadhan nahin.” No vaccination, no ration. Rajwanti Devi Jaiswal, an Accredited Social Health Activist or ASHA in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district repeated the slogan so often that it sounded like a chant. The district has one of the lowest child immunisation rates in India –...
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Whose development is it anyway? -TK Rajalakshmi and Akshay Deshmane
-Frontline.in The Assembly elections have put under intense scrutiny Narendra Modi’s Gujarat model of development which is touted as worthy of replication throughout the country. Audit reports of the CAG provide ample evidence of it being inefficient, corrupt and not beneficial to the common people. THE standard indicators of development, as is understood in theory and practice, comprise a range of indices, and not necessarily the level of private investment in...
More »Egg glitch comes in Mid Day Meals -Santosh Narayan
-The Pioneer Ranchi: The State Government, working hard to introduce centralised kitchens to cook nutritious Mid-Day Meals (MDM) for school children, has found eggs not so palatable. ISKCON and Akshay Petra, the two premier organisations, which came forward to run the mega kitchens in different parts of the State, have flagged their reservations about cooking eggs in their kitchens. Confirming the development, Sanjay Tike, looking after MDM related activities of ISKCON in the...
More »Exclusion of farm tractors from category of 'non-transport vehicles' will hit farmers: Swaraj India
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The Centre’s decision to exclude agricultural tractors from the category of ‘non-transport vehicles’ will have “severe implications” on the already distressed farmers of the country, said Swaraj India, a party founded by Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, after breaking away from the Aam Aadmi Party. In a memorandum submitted to the Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadakri, the party has demanded more time for submission of objections...
More »Gujarat model: The gleam of state's high growth numbers hides dark reality of poverty, inequality -Maitreesh Ghatak
-Scroll.in An analysis of data shows that the Gujarat model is a bubble waiting to burst. The Gujarat economy continues to be an enigma. In 2014, many considered the state’s economic performance nothing short of miraculous and credited it to the magic touch of Narendra Modi, then the four-term chief minister of the state. This even led to the coinage of a new term: Modinomics. Three years later, as Gujarat heads...
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