Poverty attracts two kinds of policy interventions. The first hopes to eradicate it and the second wants to keep the poor alive. In India, our prime effort has always been, right from the days of antodaya, to somehow keep the poor ticking, even at the lowest levels of subsistence. The NREGA scheme saves the impoverished from starvation on a six-monthly basis. We see the same mindset at work in the...
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Pathway to food security for all by MS Swaminathan
The proposed Food Security Bill should adopt a three-pronged strategy that constitutes a Universal Public Distribution System for all, low-cost foodgrains to the needy, and convergence in the delivery of nutrition safety net programmes. In his latest budget speech, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced: “We are now ready with the draft Food Security Bill which will be placed in the public domain very soon.” Although no official draft has been...
More »LPG dealership scheme to empower rural women by Sujay Mehdudia
Even as acrimony continues to haunt the status of the Women's Reservation Bill, the Petroleum Ministry has gone ahead with its own scheme of things to “empower” rural Indian women making it mandatory for 50 per cent ownership by women of cooking gas dealerships under the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin LPG Vitrak Yojana. The government is also considering sops to the Below Poverty Line population to encourage it to use the eco-friendly...
More »Ration supply to homeless people fixed, SC told by Aanchal Bansal, Krishnadas Rajagopal
Homeless people in Delhi will not have to go hungry anymore. Now, under the Antyodya Anna Yojana (AAY), a homeless household in the Capital will be supplied with 25 kg of wheat, 10 kg of rice, 6 kg of sugar and 22 litres of kerosene oil once it gets an AAY card. The AAY scheme, launched in 2000, intends to provide special food-based assistance to destitute households that are given...
More »Revenue share from sand for dam areas
Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has rolled out a road map for utilising revenue from sand mined from dams. He has announced a proposal to make special provision for the development of areas around the dams as a compensation for the hardship they undergo owing to the mining and related activities. Replying to a debate on the Appropriation Bill on the supplementary demands for grants worth Rs.3,400 crore in the Assembly...
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