-Outlook With only four days to go for the WTO meet in Bali, India today asserted that it will not compromise its stance on food security of poor and support to marginal farmers even if subsidy limits are breached. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, country's chief negotiator at WTO, also said India will engage with WTO members for a positive outcome of Bali meet, but at the same time New Delhi...
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UN health agency issues new guidelines for treating severe acute child malnutrition
-The United Nations The United Nations health agency today released new treatment guidelines for the almost 20 million children under the age of five worldwide who have severe acute malnutrition, including options for allowing them to recover at home, as well as treating those with HIV. "The guidelines are critical because many national health plans currently overlook children with severe acute malnutrition. This can be fatal. If these children don't get the...
More »The subsidy devil is in the detail-Rajiv Shastri
-The Business Standard Expenses such as employment guarantees and loan waivers are, in effect, subsidies that are classified differently in government accounts Over the last few years, the government announced many policy initiatives that purportedly help the weaker sections of our society. Schemes initiated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) or the distribution of free and affordable food items under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) are examples...
More »Head of UN anti-hunger agency commends India’s efforts to combat malnutrition
-The United Nations The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) wrapped up a two-day visit to India by lauding the Government for legislation that has made the Right to Food legally enforceable in a country that is home to about a quarter of the world's undernourished. The National Food Security Act, which was signed into law in September, is designed to provide staple foods at highly subsidised prices for...
More »Health and education must be country’s central agenda -Sitaram Yechury
-The Hindustan Times The current electoral discourse shows an amazing disconnect with the actual reality of the deteriorating livelihood conditions of our people. The other day, the BJP PM aspirant thundered in Bangalore that the BJP seeks to create confidence and not fear among the people. The 2002 Gujarat communal pogrom makes this sound incredulous. There is nothing in the BJP's campaign pitch that offers any solution or a methodology for...
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