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Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?

On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...

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Issues in Mitigation through Cold Chain: Supply-side Problems in Food Loss and Waste -Chandra S R Nuthalapati, S Mahendra Dev, and Rajeev Sharma

-Economic and Political Weekly The food systems approach proposes reducing food loss and waste as a potential solution to achieve food and nutritional security. This is formalised in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Despite the issue receiving such ubiquitous recognition, systematic efforts to measure and address FLW are absent in India. Our calculations show that one-sixth of agricultural production, accounting for one-tenth of the gross value added in...

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India to be one of Asia’s ‘biggest losers’ from the Ukraine war as Russia slammed by global sanctions -Paran Balakrishnan

-The Telegraph Recovery will stumble, inflation will rise, rupee could weaken further, say economists New Delhi: India abstained on the US-sponsored UN Security Council “deploring” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But we definitely won’t be able to stay on the sidelines when it comes to facing the economic consequences of the war, the most serious conflict in Europe since the second world war. India’s not a part of organisations like Nato whose members like...

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New mandatory disclosure for mining bidders in Rajasthan will exclude the illegal miners, says CSO

-Press release by Mineral Inheritors Rights Association dated February 18, 2022 The Rajasthan government on 17th February, has taken a positive step in addressing illegal mining in the State. The Directorate of Mines and Geology, Government of Rajasthan has added an important clause to the Bid letter of the Tender document for auction of major mineral blocks. The clause-10 (e) requires the bidder to assert: “I/We have not been convicted of...

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Demand for lower cotton prices is not justified -A Narayanamoorthy

-The Hindu Business Line The textile industry’s vociferous demands will hit cotton farmers, who are facing the brunt of rising costs The recent rise in the price of cotton yarn seems to have hit the textile manufacturers hard, so, a large section of participants involved in Value Chain products of cotton has called on the government to take measures to arrest the price rise. While demanding higher taxes on cotton exports, they have...

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