-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The key to urbanisation is the ability to monetise land value, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. "If you look at the two bordering cities across Delhi - Gurgaon and Noida - they have not been able to monetise land value and plough it back to develop the cities," Kant said at a session on 'Cities as engines of growth' at the India Economic...
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The goat ATMs of Badaun empower women -Usha Rai
-The Hindu Business Line In Uttar Pradesh, women find their calling in rearing small livestock The ten women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) or samoohs of Naithu village of Badaun, Uttar Pradesh are doing such good business in goat rearing that they call them their ATM cards. The 120 women of these samoohs were not affluent enough to buy buffaloes and cows despite the loans available, so they settled for rearing goats, paying Rs....
More »First-of-its-kind policy initiative on nutrition and diet launched in Delhi -Shreeshan Venkatesh
-Down to Earth The total health burden arising from poor diet exceeds the combined burden of unsafe sex, alcohol, drug and tobacco use The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) jointly launched the South Asian Policy Initiative for Improved Nutrition and Growth (SAPLING), a policy initiative to improve nutrition and diet in South Asian countries, on October 6, in New...
More »The salience of the Singur verdict -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A more progressive Central law on land acquisition is now in place, but several States have already either amended the new law or enacted legislation of their own. On August 31, the Supreme Court in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal delivered one of the most momentous decisions of the year. It invalidated the expropriation of land in Singur by the erstwhile Left Front government in Bengal, and...
More »Women Entrepreneurs Are Transforming Energy Use In Rural India -Soumya Sarkar
-TheWire.in Swayam Shikshan Prayog, a Maharashtra-based non-profit, is helping women become clean energy pioneers, in an initiative that has earned them a UN climate award. Varsha Pawar of Osmanabad district in Maharashtra was like any other housewife till she started selling solar cook stoves and lamps in her neighbourhood a little over a year ago. Life was never the same again. Today, she is the sarpanch (village council chief) of Tirth Khurd,...
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