-The Hindu Court holds that V. Narayanasamy could not question the President’s decision concurring with Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi, in favour of disbursing cash to RATion cardholders. PUDUCHERRY: The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed by Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy challenging a decision taken by the President concurring with Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi, in favour of disbursing cash to RATion cardholders instead of supplying them rice as...
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Jharkhand: Almost 90% of deleted RATion cards belonged to real households, finds study
-Scroll.in In 2017, lakhs of RATion cards were deleted in the state without informing the households. Almost 90% of the RATion cards that the Jharkhand government declared invalid between 2016 and 2018 belonged to real households, a study by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab revealed on Thursday. Almost 56% of these deleted RATion cards were not linked with Aadhaar. The study comes at a time when the Jharkhand government...
More »Nutrition: In Budget 2020, rhetoric beats reality again -BhaRAT Dogra
-Newsclick.in As the numbers show, the government isn’t putting its money where its mouth is Everyone, including the government, recognises the special health and nutrition needs of adolescent girls. The only trouble is, the Union government forgets this at the time of actually providing funds for nutrition. Why else would the government cut the funds for the specific schemes for nutrition to only a half of the original allocation? In the budget for...
More »Only 8.4 crore poor in India, claims a new study -Sunitha Natti
-The New Indian Express The authors conclude that the record pace of poverty reduction was due to high growth RATe. Only 84 million (8.4 crore) Indians are poor as on 2017 down from 270 million in 2011, claims a new study. It also states that poverty, as per the Tendulkar Poverty line, reduced from 14.9 per cent in 2011 to 7.0 per cent in 2017 -- the fastest pace the country has seen...
More »Crops failing against rising tempeRATures, pest attacks: Study -Pushp Bajaj
-Down to Earth Rising tempeRATures due to climate change may be compounding the stress on crops in multiple ways, it says Insect attacks are becoming stronger with rising tempeRATures and plants are not able to cope with the double whammy from pests and rising heat. These are the findings of a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study reinforces previous findings that persistent warm and...
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