Ahmedabad : In a five-page concept note that will be further expanded and which is expected to guide the government policy during the 12th Five-Year Plan for the state, 10 senior academics have pointed out the areas of concern in rural parts of Gujarat. They have put forward a proposal before the state. The paper is a result of a meeting chaired by IRMA chairman Professor Y K Alagh on the...
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Demand to do away with private ration dealers by Shiv Sahay Singh
kolkata : At a time when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is promising a revamp of the public distribution system and “food grains for all”, various right groups and unions working in the PDS sector are pressing for doing away with the system of private dealership of ration shops to stop pilferage of food grains. Representatives of Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity, Sramjivi Samnaway Committee, West Bengal Government Employees Union (Nabaparjaya), ICDS...
More »Sex tests hit rural India by Rukmini Srinivasan & Himanshi Dhawan
Fears on the rampant use of pre-natal sex determination technology in rural areas have been confirmed with census data indicating that child sex ratio (CSR) fell far more sharply in villages than in urban areas in the last decade. According to provision data on population, though the urban CSR is far worse than that in rural areas, the fall in CSR in rural areas is around four times than that in...
More »Montek panel for UID use to plug PDS leakages
-The Business Standard A panel headed by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has advocated the use of unique identification numbers to plug loopholes in the public distribution system (PDS). The working group on PDS reforms, which finalised its draft report today, has also suggested a nationwide computerised system for tracking transportation and distribution of PDS items. “We have approved the draft report and will give it to the Prime Minister...
More »UN hails studies showing antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection
-The United Nations The United Nations today welcomed the results of studies that show that taking a tablet of an antiretroviral drug daily can reduce the risk of acquiring HIV by up to 73 per cent in people not infected by the virus that causes AIDS. The findings of the studies carried out in Kenya, Uganda and Botswana, showed that daily use of both tenofovir and tenofovir/emtricitabine antiretrovirals, taken as preventive...
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