-The Telegraph Alertness among public and preparedness by healthcare institutions is always good, says Organised Medicine Academic Guild’s secretary-general New Delhi: A body of medics has called on fellow doctors and government agencies to acknowledge India’s largely safe status against existing coronavirus variants and avoid “scaremongering” lest the public disregard caution if and when a “real wolf” arrives. The Organised Medicine Academic Guild (Omag), a body of 15 professional medical associations with a...
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Road to a malnutrition-free India -Bhavani RV
-The Hindu It’s imperative that ‘good nutrition’ becomes everyone’s mantra if we are serious about addressing the challenge Malnutrition continues to be a major challenge in India 75 years after independence and we need concerted action around it. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) report on Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 puts the number of undernourished people in India in 2019-21 at 224.3 million, i.e., 16% of a...
More »Fact check: Is natural gas just as responsible as coal for global warming, as Union minister claims? -Divyani Dubey
-Scroll.in In theory, natural gas is 'cleaner' than coal, but while producing the gas a certain amount of methane ( a greenhouse gas) leaks into the atmosphere. RK Singh, the Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy, said on December 5 that natural gas is just as responsible as coal for global warming, if not more. “In COP26 they added a line, they wanted to add… phase-out of coal. But thereafter India...
More »Women break new ground in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme -Sobhana K Nair
-The Hindu They make up 57.8% of the scheme beneficiaries in 2022-23 — a 10-year high; Bihar and U.P. record a high proportion of women workers The proportion of women workers participating in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has touched a ten-year high in the ongoing financial year. According to the latest statistics available with the Union Ministry of Rural Development, 57.8% of the workers who used the...
More »Restore ration entitlements axed by PMGKAY withdrawal: Right to Food campaign
- Press release by Right to Food campaign dated 30 December, 2022 The Right to Food campaign has demanded that the government should restore the grain entitlements granted under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). On 23 December, 2022 the Union government announced that it would discontinue the PMGKAY from 1 January, 2023, thus halving the ration entitlements of eligible people. Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, (NFSA), all priority category ration cardholders...
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