-PTI NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission today approved plan size of Rs 2,000 crore for 2013-14 for Nagaland, down 13 per cent from a year ago. This was discussed here at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio. The commission had approved a plan size of Rs 2,300 crore in 2012-13. "We have agreed on a plan size of Rs 2,000 crore, which is...
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Depositors from outside add to complaint pile
-The Indian Express Kolkata: AMONG the 6.25 lakh complaints received by Justice Sen Commission, which has been set up by the West Bengal government to inquire into the Saradha Group and other chit fund scams and also to look into ways to return money to investors, many have been submitted by people from other states where the firms were operating. "Since the West Bengal government is the only state government that has...
More »Privatising the ICDS?-Jayati Ghosh
-Frontline The Central government's proposal to hand over the supply of supplementary nutrition to NGOs in the name of "community participation" is surely an invitation for private profiteering on the back of this supposedly public scheme. ENSURING safe and healthy conditions for the reproduction of the population is obviously the most fundamental requirement of any society. So the progress of a society can be determined (and indeed is routinely judged) by the...
More »Four walls and the cry for help -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu Every hour 25 women fall victim to crimes; 11 suffer cruelty by husbands and other relatives; three are raped; and there is one dowry death. Horrific crimes against women have, in fact, continued unabated. What is worse is that there has been an acceleration of such crimes in recent years, with the annual rate rising from 5.9 per cent in 2006 to 7.8 per cent during 2006-2011. Cases of domestic...
More »Urban PHCs to work from noon till night -Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Aim is to help urban poor go to health facilities after working hours To help urban poor go to health facilities after working hours, urban primary health centres, planned under the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), will function from noon to 8 p.m. Out-patient departments at standard health facilities worked only in the morning; when patients had to go to work, visiting a doctor or hospital would mean losing a...
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