-TheWire.in The MoEFCC's recent decision to exclude new-gen GM plants from the ambit of existing biosafety rules endangers our food system, food exports, farmers' rights over their crops and the country's biological heritage for the sake of corporate profits. Christmas came early for Big Biotech companies and their allied seeds multipliers as the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has recently, through an office memorandum, excluded the new generation genetically...
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Over-exploitation of groundwater must stop -A Narayanamoorthy
-The Hindu Business Line The situation is alarming. Cultivation costs are increasing and the quality of water is deteriorating Groundwater has become the major source of water in most countries today. It currently contributes to about half of the world’s total drinking water , 40 per cent of agricultural needs and one-third of industrial demand. The contribution of groundwater in India is much higher than the world average. Is groundwater exploitation in...
More »Retail Inflation Shot Up to 6.95% in March: Government
-TheWire.in It is for the third straight month that the retail inflation remained above the Reserve Bank of India's comfort zone. New Delhi: Consumer price-based inflation jumped to 6.95% in March, mainly on account of costlier food items, according to government data released on Tuesday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 6.07% in February. The inflation in the food basket was 7.68% in March, up from 5.85% in the preceding month. It is...
More »HOPS as a route to universal health care -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu ‘Healthcare as an optional public service’ would ensure the legal right to receive free, quality care in a public institution The lingering COVID-19 crisis is a good time to revive an issue that is, oddly, slow to come to life in India — universal health care (UHC). Meanwhile, UHC has become a well-accepted objective of public policy around the world. It has even been largely realised in many countries, not...
More »Karnataka govt set to serve eggs on mid-day meal menu in more districts, despite opposition -Shyam Nandan Upadhyay
-ThePrint.in The state government had last year introduced the scheme in seven districts but faced stiff opposition from Lingayat, Jain and other communities. New Delhi: In order to tackle malnutrition among children, the BJP government in Karnataka is planning to expand its initiative of serving eggs in mid-day meals to more schools across the district. The state government had last year introduced the scheme in seven districts of north Karnataka, namely Bidar, Raichur,...
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