-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik government is planning to provide edible oil, salt and finger millet - considered one of the most nutritious cereals - to the poor at subisidised rates under the food security scheme. It plans to implement a food security scheme on line of the National Food Security (NFS) programme. "Work is on to prepare a detailed plan to this effect. We will bring it in the coming annual...
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Police's Continued Victimisation of 'Denotified' Tribal Communities Can No Longer Go Unchallenged -Sujata Gothoskar
-TheWire.in Years of stigmatisation and harassment have pushed members of the Pardhi and other Adivasi communities in Bhopal to come together and protest police impunity. Fed up with police harassment, Indramal Bai committed suicide in the Gandhi Nagar basti of Bhopal on November 20, 2017. Nothing has changed over the last decade since Tanti Bai, a 14 year old, committed suicide for the very same reason on January 19, 2007. Both were...
More »Impact of MGNREGS: household income on rise, and so is agricultural productivity -Jitendra
-Down to Earth In the last one decade, it has also helped increase groundwater table by virtue of implementing a range of water conservation measures. Once ridiculed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the flagship scheme for rural employment, Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), has been praised by his own government for helping in increasing rural household income. It has not only helped in increasing groundwater table in the...
More »Egg on the boil! Prices shoot up 40%
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Hit by tight supply in the many states, egg prices in the country have increased by up to 40 per cent. PoUltry Federation of India President Ramesh Katri on Monday said, "the prices have jumped by up to 40 per cent to Rs 7-7.50 per piece in retail markets in most parts of the country, hit by tight supply." He added that the upward trend would...
More »Egg prices hits a high, now as costly as chicken -Harish Damodaran & Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Considering that egg production isn’t going to recover as fast as broiler, consumers may have to wait for a few weeks for prices to ease. New Delhi/ Pune: Egg prices have gone through the roof, so much so that at current retail rates of around Rs 7 per piece, it may be more worthwhile for people to eat chicken instead. PoUltry farmers in the Pune region are now selling eggs...
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