-PTI From cleanliness in kitchen, to quality of food being served to Children, they will keep an eye on minute details, UP Basic Education Minister Anupma Jaiswal said. Lucknow: It’s a Mother’s Day gift for lakhs of Children and their moms in Uttar Pradesh. ‘Maa’ will now keep an eye on mid-day meals served to students in state-run primary schools to ensure that they get nutritious food prepared in hygienic conditions. “In...
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UP CM faces tough task of improving social, eco indices -Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Apart from tackling law and order, the Yogi Aditya Nath government in Uttar Pradesh has a tough challenge ahead as the country's most populous state has slipped on most social and economic parameters due to decades of unstable governments and rule by regional outfits. Realising that UP must develop for India to progress, the Modi government has asked the Niti Aayog to assist the state in...
More »How Tiruppur is now weaving a green cover for the district -Pankaja Srinivasan
-The Hindu How Tiruppur, India’s knitwear hub, is now weaving a green cover for the entire district We moved this tree 15 km on a truck along the stretch between Avinashi and Avinashipalayam.” V. Mahendran points to a hulking tree trunk. “The operation took us nine hours. Even with its branches and most of its canopy chopped off, it weighed more than 40 tonnes.” We are at the Tiruppur Collectorate, and Mahendran,...
More »Haryana districts inflating girl child stats, finds audit -Chetna Choudhry
-The Times of India GURUGRAM: Last year, Haryana's sex ratio (the number of girls per 1,000 boys) touched 900. In the first quarter of this year, it galloped to 935. The number for March 2017 was still higher, 950. To put these numbers in perspective, the national sex ratio for Children in the 2011 Census was 919. In Haryana, the number stood at 834. There is now suspicion that the remarkable surge...
More »Sexual violence against women in riots and other mass crimes is being 'normalised' -Syeda Hameed and Salina Wilson
-Hindustan Times We live in a social regime where women are seen as an embodiment of men’s izzat (honour). Attacking ‘their women’ then becomes the undoing of the whole community. Bilkis Bano. The name and the face have been haunting me since the judgment was announced on her case by the Bombay High Court on May 4. In March 2002, our group of six women arrived in Ahmedabad to document what had...
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