-The Times of India There is good news and bad news on one of the key problems that haunts India - survival of the girl child. Sex ratio at birth, that is, the number of girls born for every 1000 boys born, has inched up from 906 to 909 between 2007 and 2013. This suggests that female feticide, the monstrous practice of killing off the girl baby in the mothers' womb...
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To get water to every farm, integrate rural job scheme with new irrigation programme: PM
-The Hindu Business Line Departments, Ministries asked to fast-track the scheme New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for integration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) with the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana. This will help in creating more irrigation assets, he said. A day after clearing changes in the Land Acquisition Act, Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Tuesday on the irrigation scheme and asked the Departments...
More »Small and marginal farmers in distress -R Ramakumar and Aparajita Bakshi
-The Hans India It is official now. New data released by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) for 2013 show that the agrarian distress in rural India is continuing, and even intensifying for small and marginal farmers. In the last decade, there has been much talk on inclusive growth, revival of growth rates in agriculture, higher public investment in agriculture and the doubling of agricultural credit. Yet, the new data show...
More »Is MGNREGS reaching its end? -Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
-The Hindu Business Line The rural job guarantee scheme is threatened by the undermining of its driving force, demand-driven work Is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) suffering a midlife crisis or are we staring at its death? From a budget of ₹401 billion in 2010-11, it has plummeted to ₹330 billion in 2013-14. Given the much higher wages currently offered to workers, it has taken a serious hit. The...
More »Tribal malnutrition: India’s hidden epidemic -Louis-Georges Arsenault
-The Hindustan Times Despite constitutional protection, positive discrimination policies and earmarked budgets, India's 104 million tribal people remain among the poorest and most nutritionally deprived social groups. In 2005-06, 54% of tribal children under five years of age were stunted, which is a measure of chronic undernutrition; this is well above the national average of 48%. Studies carried out between 2006 and 2013 in different states reveal that the percentage of...
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