-Hindustan Times If Indian cities have become successful in turning away migrants, we should see that as the first sign of their demise, not their dynamism. “Stop migration into cities.” These were the words of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman during last week’s budget speech, even as she — confusingly — called urbanization an “opportunity rather than a challenge.” A call to stop rural-urban migration should alarm, but not surprise us. The FM’s statement...
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In 3 months, no girls were born in 132 U'kashi villages -Abhyudaya Kotnala
-The Times of India Uttarkashi: To battle the declining child sex ratio in Uttarkashi district, the administration has marked 132 villages under red zone and has put local accredited social health activist (ASHA) workers on its radar. The action was taken after report of the past three months on child birth revealed that not a single girl child was born in 132 villages of the district which delivered a total of 216...
More »In Some Uttarakhand Villages, Not a Single Girl Was Born in Three Months
-TheWire.in The imbalance has raised the possibility of sex-selective abortions or the killing of girl children that may be occurring in these villages. New Delhi: In 132 villages in Uttarkashi, a district in the state of Uttarakhand, no girl children were born in the last three months, according to a report in the Times of India. The only children born here were boys, 216 of them. The imbalance has raised the possibility of...
More »Augmenting Agrarian Livelihoods in the Time of Crisis: A Baseline for KALIA -Sarthak Gaurav
-Odisha Economy Discussion Series-2, April 2019, Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar Purpose – The recently launched KALIA scheme of the Government of Odisha is a massive direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme aimed at improving the condition of around three million farm households along with that of landless cultivators, sharecroppers, agricultural labourers, and vulnerable households. However, evaluations of the impacts of the scheme are likely to face difficulties in the...
More »PDS contributes to food security, research finds
-The Times of India Salem: Salem Periyar University and University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, have jointly conducted a research on the public distribution system (PDS) in selected rural areas of Salem district since 2017. At the end of two-year research, the team has found that the PDS has great support among its users in rural areas and contributed positively to food security Vice-chancellor of Periyar University P Kolandaivel said, “In the coming months,...
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