-Frontline The midday meal scheme is a grand idea in a flawed school system. "THEY played here, studied here and got buried here!" (Yahin khela, yahin padha aur yahin ho gaya dafan). With these emphatic words, grieving parents buried the bodies of two children within the compound of the Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School of Masharakh block in Saran district of Bihar. This sentiment was expressed with great dignity even in the...
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In Chhattisgarh, contamination of water claims 20 lives -Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: Water contamination in flood-affected Panchayats of Abujhmarh in Narainpur district of south Chhattisgarh may result in a huge death toll, it is feared. The secretary of one of the affected Panchayats, Kamluram Netam, has told journalists of Narainpur that several Panchayats of the area are "severely affected and the death toll will go up." So far, more than 20 persons have died due to water-borne diseases, the locals said....
More »Minding the mid-day meal: How a mother made a difference -Parvinder Singh & Priyanka Sarkar
-One World South Asia The mid-day meal tragedy in Bihar has drawn attention directly to the way we articulate and work for educational entitlements, writes Parvinder Singh and Priyanka Sarkar. Lucknow: It takes an informed and empowered community to harvest the fruits of educational entitlements, including non-discriminatory access to midday meals. The promises made in the Right to Education Act can only be wrested as rights when they are owned by the...
More »Creating durable assets through rural employment: Rubber Board ties up with MGNREGA
-The Economic Times The state-run Rubber Board is turning to the rural employment guarantee programme to increase India's natural rubber output from the present 9 million tonne a year. With rising global demand for rubber, the board is keen to extend the area under cultivation. It has identified 400,000 hectare in the North East, 100,000 hectare in Odisha and 50,000 hectare each in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh as areas with potential...
More »In Bathinda, all sarpanchs are ‘Falana Singhs’ -Neel Kamal
-The Times of India BATHINDA: The oath-taking ceremony of newly-elected sarpanchs and panchs from Bathinda district turned out to be a comical affair on Saturday as many of the elected representatives parroted the words uttered by Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. To help the newly-elected sarpanchs and panchs, Badal told them to take their oaths on this line of, "Main Falana Singh sauhn chukda haan' (I XYZ Singh take oath) and...
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