-India Climate Dialogue It does not depend on erratic electricity supply from the grid Sandeep Alse, a farmer who grows fruits and vegetables in Marathwada, a drought-prone region in Maharashtra, found it difficult to reach the market with his produce on time, due to poor infrastrucTure. The lack of cold storage facility in the vicinity added to his woes and much of his harvest was spoiled, making it difficult for him to...
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Tuticorin Sterlite Copper plant accounts for 40 per cent of country's copper: Will hit 800 units and jobs -Deepak Patel
-The Indian Express Tuticorin Sterlite Copper plant shutdown is also likely to impact India’s copper exports as around 1.6 lakh tonnes of Tuticorin plant’s production is sold internationally. The Tamil Nadu government’s decision Monday to shut down Vedanta Limited’s copper plant at Tuticorin, which accounts for a 40 per cent share in India’s annual copper production of 10 lakh tonnes, could have a downstream impact on around 800 small and medium units...
More »The light bearer of Bulumgavan: the 26-year-old who transformed a village -Jyoti Shelar
-The Hindu Anand Joshi, a rural development fellow under CM’s programme, helped bring State Transport buses, and electricity after 70 years to a remote village in Amravati Mumbai: Anand Joshi (26), an MBA from MIT, Pune open university is reverently referred to as khambewala saab in Bulumgavan village in Amravati district. He finds the tag both daunting and amusing: “They call me that because of the electric poles that stand in their...
More »Dads' drive after loss of kids -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Three fathers who lost a child each to alleged medical negligence and a patients' rights group have asked the Union health ministry to establish new mechanisms to address complaints of negligence. The existing institutional mechanisms to protect patients has failed and broken down, their letter to minister J.P. Nadda and health officials on SaTurday said. The parents and the rights group, the All India Drug Action Network, have sought...
More »Whether It's Health or Crops, India Isn't Doing Social Insurance Right -Satya N Mohanty
-TheWire.in The Modi government is pushing insurance schemes in both health and agriculTure. But are they really making a difference? How successful, effective and equitable is insurance as a state policy? Does it address what it is meant to address in the first place, be it in health or agriculTure? How does it handle systemic risk, which is essentially uninsurable? Does it also present a lost opportunity for improving the delivery of...
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