-Governance Now Shanta Kumar committee recommendation to curtail PDS based on "motivated data fudging" A group of economists have challenged the government move to scale down the ambit of the food security initiative, arguing that leakages in the public distribution system (PDS) are not as bad as an official committee has concluded. A ‘high-level committee on restructuring of FCI', headed by Shanta Kumar, submitted its report to prime minister Narendra Modi last month,...
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On offer: Cost-effective measures to rid India of air pollution -E Somanathan
-The Hindustan Times Delhi has the dubious distinction of being the world's most polluted city. In fact, the entire country, including the rural areas, is heavily polluted as anyone who has taken a flight in India knows. The fog that engulfs north India in winter is largely a consequence of the smoke particles in the air on which water condenses easily. Why have matters been allowed to reach this state? One...
More »For the sake of the Good Earth -Rita Sharma
-The Tribune In India, mounting demographic pressures are leading to soil degradation. About 17 per cent of the global human and 11 per cent of livestock population is being sustained on a mere 2 per cent of the world's land and 4 per cent of its freshwater resources. The year 2015 has been designated as the International Year of the Soils by the United Nations. Recently, December 5 was commemorated as World...
More »Veggie, fruit pRices soar by up to 100% -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: PRices of most food items have been inching up relentlessly through the past year despite several so-called reforms in management of food supply chains. While staples like wheat flour and Rice have become marginally costlier, pRices of pulses like masoor and arhar have soared by up to 30%. Barring a few exceptions, pRices of vegetables and fruits have shot up by 20 to 50%, and...
More »Bubble, bubble, less trouble -Aakriti Shrivastava
-The Hindu Business Line A device that literally makes light of the Rice parboiling process Bhuvani Devi, a frail-looking woman in her early thirties, has taken up a new challenge - to produce a tonne of parboiled Rice in Baarwan village in Jharkhand's Deoghar district. Unlike what the region's paddy farmers did until now, she wants to process and sell parboiled Rice rather than paddy itself. "We used to sell paddy at...
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