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Keeping a finger on the pulse economy -Yoginder K Alagh

-The Tribune To ensure stable prices of pulses and attractive returns for producers, policies of domestic prices and tariffs should blend. Import duties must be calibrated with demand. As the Indian economy grows at a rate of 7 per cent plus, assuming low growth as an aberration, the food basket will diversify. Within grains, the movement will be to pulses as shown by the  expert group on pulse production. The yield and...

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Delhi govt to penalise officials who delay public services

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has decided to deduct salaries of officials if they fail to provide services included in the citizen charter within the prescribed time limit. Previously, an applicant was allowed to claim compensation for delays but the government has proposed to make the process automatic and mandatory by amending the ‘Delhi (Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services) Act 2011’. There are a...

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AIDS preventive medicine available from December in Sonagachi

-PTI 'Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis' (PrEP), regular medicine would be given to HIV-negative sex workers who engage sexually with HIV-positive persons. Kolkata: One of Asia’s largest red light districts, Sonagachi will roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers from next month. It will be the first such initiative in the country. The feasibility project recently received clearance from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and Union Health Ministry and is...

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For a truer decentralisation -M Govinda Rao

-The Hindu Despite its uneven history in India, decentralisation is vital to strengthen participatory democracy, facilitate responsive governance and enable public service delivery. Much has been written on decentralisation in India though, on the ground, there is very little to show despite the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments. The rationale for decentralisation comes from the need to strengthen participatory democracy, facilitate responsive governance, ensure greater accountability and enable public service delivery according to...

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Pulse of the matter: Manufacturing a dal crisis, short-changing both farmer and consumer -Yogesh Pawar

-DNA Wondering about the plight of the rural population facing successive droughts which has to buy pulses, South Asia Network for Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) laments how no benefit of the price hike is reaching actual pulse farmers. While most link the current tur (pigeon pea) dal crisis with raging market prices, storage issues, hoarding and economics, a new study highlighting the making of the crisis - by South Asia Network...

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