-SciDev.net India plans to produce 160,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2022 Financing, land-acquisition and proper policies are among challenges to the plans Government confident of financing by World Bank and multilateral agencies NEW DELHI: Financing, land-acquisition and lack of proper policies are among challenges to India's ambitious renewable energy projects, the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) run by The Energy and...
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Goa racing to meet Food Security Act deadline -Joaquim Fernandes
-The Times of India PANAJI: With the deadline for the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Goa fast-approaching (March 15), the government is scrambling to complete the verification of beneficiary data, both for the electronic public distribution system (e-pds) and also for the NFSA. Civil supplies minister Dayanand Mandrekar told TOI that if Goa does not implement the NFSA on time, the state risks losing the PDS quota of...
More »Rs.98,679 cr. for priority sector lending in AP
-The Hindu Hyderabad: The credit plan estimate for 2015-16 for priority sector lending in Andhra Pradesh has been put at Rs.98,679 crore by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, 27 per cent higher than State's credit plan for 2014-15. The plan estimate was unveiled here on Thursday at a State Credit Seminar, which was attended by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Agriculture Minister P. Pulla Rao and Chief Secretary I.Y.R....
More »Food insecurity acts -Brinda Karat
-The Hindu The Shanta Kumar Committee's recommendations to unbundle the Food Corporation of India are in tune with U.S.-led demands raised in the World Trade Organization The Shanta Kumar Committee report, released last week, on a range of issues relating to procurement, storage and distribution of food grains is not only deeply flawed in its reading of the situation on food security, but also short on facts. It was prepared under the...
More »Data Drive: Clear the food rot
-The Financial Express Only 6% farmers have gained from selling wheat and paddy directly to any procurement agency and the diversion of grains from the public distribution system is close to 47%. Against this backdrop, the Shanta Kumar panel's report on reorienting the role and restructuring of Food Corporation of India (FCI) needs to be adopted by the government at the earliest and in totality. This will indeed make for huge...
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