Wider access to anti-retroviral therapy reduced AIDS casualties Children account for 3.5 % of all infections Even though the overall HIV infection prevalence rate has shown a 50 per cent decline during the past decade in India, among the States, Manipur continues to top the list with an adult prevalence of 1.40 per cent, followed by Andhra Pradesh (0.90 per cent), Mizoram (0.81 per cent) and Nagaland at (0.78 per cent). It...
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Draft on disability law a bad job: rights group by Aarti Dhar
The National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) has rejected the draft of the new law proposed by the government for differently-abled persons.Describing it as “mischievous and clever,” Javed Abidi, executive director of the disability rights group, has sought a “re-look” at the law, and demanded the disbanding of the 30-member committee that was asked to prepare the draft. The panel outsourced the job and asked the...
More »‘At Braj, they are happier than in their homes' by Aarti Dhar
Younger widows seem open to idea of remarriage, says study The widows in Braj, a region around Vrindavan town in Uttar Pradesh that provides shelter to probably the largest number of widows in the country, are happier there than in their homes in villages, and most of them have no intention of returning. They also seem to be veering away from traditional beliefs on how widows should live and what they...
More »Centre to send monitors to MP to probe alleged graft in NREGA by Ashwini Shrivastava
The Centre will send "monitors" to Madhya Pradesh to look into alleged financial irregularities worth crores of rupees in several works done under its flagship rural employment guarantee scheme. Official sources said the action came after several non-government organisations and self-help groups approached Rural Development Ministry, nodal agency for executing work through under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA), regarding alleged corruption in the programme meant for people living...
More »Farmers demand open, transparent agri R&D
A Farmers’ Round Table held in Dharwad has demanded that the state agricultural universities in Dharwad and Bangalore must present their research initiatives of the year in front of a farmers’ jury mainly of the small and marginalised and commit to respect its verdict. The Round Table also demanded that at every Krishi Mela held across the state, there should be a mini farmers’ jury to openly and transparently discuss the...
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