-Hindustan Times It’s a paradoxical fact. Families become smaller as better nutrition, vaccination and healthcare ensure couples lose fewer children to malnutrition and infections, such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, sepsis and tuberculosis India’s most comprehensive report card on health released earlier this year shows India’s total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped from an average of 2.7 children per women in 2006 to 2.2 a decade later. Around two in three states that are...
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ECI issues letter of intent for purchase of 16,15,000 VVPAT units
-The Hindu These VVPAT machines will be manufactured only as per the design approved by the Election Commission. The Election Commission has issued letter of intent for purchase of 16.15 lakh Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, following a clearance by the Union Cabinet on fund allocations. The machines will be procured in 2017-18 and 2018-19 at an estimated cost of ?3,173.47 crore from public sector undertakings BEL and ECIL. “In its letter sent...
More »Clarity and facts on the ground -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu Why it’s essential that the Supreme Court speedily hears the Aadhaar petitions There are several conflicting accounts of precisely what transpired when senior advocate Shyam Divan made a request late in March for an early hearing of a batch of petitions that question the validity of the unique identification scheme, implemented through the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 — or the Aadhaar...
More »Nine in every 10 children do not get adequate diet in Jharkhand, Bihar: NFHS data
-Down to Earth Almost 69.9 per cent of children under five years in Jharkhand are acutely suffering from anaemia Nine out of every ten children within the age-group of 6–23 months in Bihar and Jharkhand do not get adequate diet, as the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS 4, 2015-16) data highlights. In a series of startling revelations, the nutrition and health status of children in the two states are found...
More »Is Aadhaar set to become the primary ID? -Tina Edwin
-The Hindu Business Line It appears so, going by the various steps taken by the government in that direction New Delhi: The government seems set to make the Aadhaar number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India the primary identification number for all citizens of the country for not just delivery of services and benefits but also to keep track of financial transactions of each individual and curb tax evasion. This is...
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