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India needs to invest $74 billion per year to end hunger by 2030: UN -Sayantan Bera

-Livemint.com An average of $267 billion is required annually at the global level to eliminate hunger, says a report by three UN bodies New Delhi: India will need to spend $74 billion, or double what it currently does, in social protection programmes, rural development and agriculture annually over the next 15 years to eradicate hunger by 2030, according to a new UN report. An average of $267 billion is required annually at...

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Why poverty is development’s best friend -G Sampath

-The Hindu The ‘development’ discourse serves the same purpose as the colonial apparatus but without the bad press. After 67 years of failing to eliminate deprivation in India, is it time to look for new ideas? The Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, which hit the headlines earlier this month, tells us that half the households in rural India are landless, dependant on casual manual labour, and live in deprivation. By suggesting...

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A State Only In Name -Rakshita Swamy

-The Indian Express Push for cash transfers tacitly asks citizens to fend for themselves The implementation of cash transfers by a state would necessarily entail: one, the identification of beneficiaries on the basis of predefined eligibility parameters; and two, calculating the exact amount of money, equivalent to the monetary value of the subsidy that beneficiaries were supposed to get, and transferring it into their bank accounts — with the intention that they...

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Regional parties asks more health and population questions

-PTI Regional political parties like DMK, NCP, Shiv Sena were more active in asking health and population related questions in both the Houses of Parliament as compared to two national parties - the Congress and BJP in last two years, a recent analysis has found. The report was released by Indian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (IAPPD) which conducted a comparative analysis of Parliament questions on health and population for...

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Solutions can come from the slums -Thillai Rajan A & Sriharini Narayanan

-The Hindu Urban planning that involves the people and alternative service providers gives far better results than top-down efforts from the government, finds an IIT-M study In Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, the responsibility of managing and maintaining a set of more than 160 community toilets was handed over by the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation to a federation of women self-help groups. A post-programme field survey of 803 households revealed that the community participation had...

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