-Scroll.in Unplanned urbanisation, changing rainfall patterns and delayed preventive measures have created perfect conditions for mosquitoes to thrive. When Dr Shaukat Kalam visited Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh in August, he saw signs of a deadly dengue outbreak everywhere. “We found mosquito breeding in every SECond house, in the garbage, on the roadside, in articles where water was accumulating,” said the entomologist, an expert on inSECts, who currently works with the central government’s...
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Right to Food Campaign SECretariat demands for increasing the quota under PDS to include those without ration cards
-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign SECretariat dated 3rd December, 2021 In its press release dated 3 December, 2021, the Right to Food Campaign welcomes the Central Government's decision to extend Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), and reiterates the demands for increasing quota and universalisation of PDS. Please click here to access the press release by the Right to Food Campaign SECretariat dated 3rd December, 2021. For further information,...
More »Omicron posers for Narendra Modi government in Lok Sabha -JP Yadav
-The Telegraph The Opposition members said the govt’s drum-beating over vaccination was premature as only 38% of the adult population had been fully inoculated so far The Opposition on Thursday tore into the Narendra Modi government during a Lok Sabha debate for the mishandling of the SECond Covid wave and asked what measures were being taken to tackle a possible third surge that could be fuelled by the omicron variant. “When will all...
More »In Maharashtra’s Drought-Prone District, a ‘Goat Bank’ Is Making Women Financially SECure -Sukanya Shantha
-TheWire.in The ‘Goat Bank of Karkheda’, started by agriculturist and educationist Naresh Deshmukh in Akola district, has helped many women overcome their debt-ridden life. Mumbai: Pratibha Patil’s family has come a long way. Just two years ago, as landless agricultural labourers in Sangavi Mohadi village in Akola, Patil and her husband toiled for over nine hours on the land of the rich to earn their collective sum of Rs 350 per day....
More »Why the actual expenditure on Central-SECtor farm schemes is low -Radheshyam Jadhav
-The Hindu Business Line Farmers say the schemes do not reach them and cost of farming is only rising The government of India facilitates State governments to reduce agricultural costs through many Centrally-sponsored and Central-SECtor schemes. However, the latest data available for six major schemes for the last five years show that the actual expenditure on these schemes has remained low compared to Budget estimates. Farmers have been complaining that the schemes are...
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