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Slum-dwellers don’t want cash for ration: Survey

Raising their voice against the Delhi Government’s plans to introduce cash in lieu of ration residents and volunteers working on the public distribution system came together on Thursday and released a survey from the slums of Delhi showing that 99% of the respondents don’t want cash transfers. The survey conducted across a sample of 593 ration card holders in 14 slum areas shows that 99% of the people living in these...

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Making sanitation as popular as cricket by Darryl D'Monte

700 million Indians have cell phones, but 638 million still don’t have access to proper sanitation. At this year’s South Asian Conference on Sanitation, social solutions to the problem were discussed, including “naming and shaming” and the CLTS programme which gets villagers to map the open areas where they defecate There can hardly be a bigger taboo than sanitation when it comes to the government, bureaucracy or even the people...

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Without more funds for fight against TB, millions face death, Ban warns

Without additional funding in the battle against tuberculosis for research, improved prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, some 8 million people will die from what is largely a curable disease between now and 2015, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today. “There is cause for optimism,” he said in a message marking World Tuberculosis Day. “The recent adoption of a fast and powerful new diagnostic tool promises to accelerate international gains against the disease. “At...

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UP ranks third with 44 lakh Slum Dwellers

United Nation Development Programme's India Urban Poverty Report, 2009 has pegged the number of Slum Dwellers in Uttar Pradesh at 44 lakh. The sample survey, which was conducted under the 58th round of the National Sample Survey Organisation, also suggests that UP is next only to Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, where 1.2 crore and 52 lakh urban poor are apparently living. The high numbers, however, it appears, are not the only...

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Simpreet Singh, RTI activist from National Alliance for Peoples Movement (NAPM) interviewed by Viju B

Activist Simpreet Singh received the national RTI council award instituted by Arvind Kejriwal's Public Cause Research Foundation on behalf of the National Alliance for Peoples Movement (NAPM) which uses the RTI Act to expose fraud and misappropriation of public assets. NAPM used the RTI Act to investigate Adarsh, the tower meant for Kargil war widows, but usurped by state bureaucrats, politicians and defence personnel who had no role to play...

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