-The Hindu India needs to invest in quality school and higher education as well as healthcare The UN report, World Population Prospects 2022, forecasts that the world’s population will touch eight billion this year and rise to 9.8 billion in 2050. What is of immediate interest to India is that its population will surpass China’s by 2023 and continue to surge. A long-time critic of China’s population policy and author of Big Country...
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Review: Standing Committee asks FCI to work towards reduced wastage & stringent action against delinquent officials -Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
-Factly.in The parliamentary standing committee on Food, Consumer Affairs, and Public Distribution presented a report regarding the Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Food grains by the FCI in August 2021. The government has now presented its action taken report. Here is a review. Food security is an important element of a nation’s stability and prosperity. The starting point for ensuring food security is the procurement stage, followed by storage, and distribution. In...
More »MGNREGA ‘Under Attack’? Rural Workers Demand Increased Budgetary Allocations -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in At the call of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, rural workers from over 15 states started a three-day protest at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday. New Delhi: Hundreds of rural workers from across the country gathered here at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday, as part of a three-day protest to press for adequate funding for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. The protest has been called by one NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, a...
More »107-fold spike in fake Rs 2,000 notes since 2016
-The Tribune Little impact of demonetisation Six years after demonetisation, the black currency market continues to thrive. There has been a WHOpping 107 times increase in the number of fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination between 2016 and 2020. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary today said 2,272 fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination were seized in 2016, 74,898 in 2017, 54,776...
More »Plight of the small peasantry in Punjab is affecting their mental health, highlights field-based study
Door-to-door and village-to-village surveys carried out by researchers of the Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana detected a total of 9,291 suicides that were committed by farmers in six districts of Punjab during the period from 2000 to 2018. Situated in the Malwa region of Punjab, which is known for cotton farming and the prevalence of cancer among its population, Sangrur (2,506) witnessed the highest number of...
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