-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 20th December, 2021   The Right to Food Campaign has issued a statement on the issue of giving eggs in Mid day meals. On November 23 2021, in the context of malnutrition, the State Government of Karnataka announced that eggs would be provided three days a week as part of the mid-day meal scheme to students in seven districts. Against this decision,...

-Forward Press An email interview with one of the foremost development economists against the backdrop of the latest report of the World Inequality Lab describing India as one of the most unequal countries in the world The World Inequality Lab has just published the World Inequality Report 2022. The Paris-based organization, which is directed by top economists, including Thomas Piketty, has painted a grim picture of the inequality in India based on...

-Hindustan Times The study has been authored by Aditi Roy, PHFI Crop diversity is thought to have small, positive impacts on dietary diversity among farming households, particularly when market access is restricted. Policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic severely restricted market access. To date, no study has explored the relationship between crop and dietary diversity in this context. To address this gap, we used longitudinal data collected from 833 farmers across 12...

-TheWire.in A list of 136 deprived pensioners was submitted to Committee. It said, "withholding pension benefits for these persons is gross harassment." New Delhi: The Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has recommended that the Department of Personnel and Training should issue guidelines that Caste certificates of SC/ST employees be verified within six months of their joining service, failing which they should be treated as authentic unless...

-The Hindu The Socio-Economic Caste Census, 2011 was organised not as an OBC survey but to get the Caste status of all in the country in order to improve the delivery of targeted benefits, the Centre said. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the law negated a Caste census and “the Constitution believes in population and not in Caste or religion” even as the Centre insisted that data collated during a Socio-Economic...