-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Fatalities in road accidents have declined by 5,000 during three quarters of 2017 (January to September) in comparison to the same period in 2016. This is also the steepest ever reduction in road deaths, according to the data shared by state governments with Supreme Court appointed panel on road safety. Among major states, Punjab has recorded the maximum decline in road deaths by 14.4% followed...
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Modi wants smog-free Delhi winter; new steps soon to tackle air pollution -AK Bhattacharya
-Business Standard The brief for the task force is to ensure that the winter of 2018 becomes pollution free. Remedial action, therefore, is likely in the next few months A package of measures to reduce air pollution levels significantly in the National Capital Region (NCR) around Delhi by the winter of 2018 is expected to be formulated soon and implemented within a specified time frame. NCR covers the whole of the National...
More »Why India continues to use lethal pesticides -Sonam Taneja
-Down to Earth Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards regulation of toxic pesticides One more evil has reared its ugly head in Maharashtra’s arid Vidarbha region, which has so far been infamous for farmer suicides. Some 35 farmers in the region have died of pesticide poisoning in last four months. Most of them were working in cotton and...
More »Whose development is it anyway? -TK Rajalakshmi and Akshay Deshmane
-Frontline.in The Assembly elections have put under intense scrutiny Narendra Modi’s Gujarat model of development which is touted as worthy of replication throughout the country. Audit reports of the CAG provide ample evidence of it being inefficient, corrupt and not beneficial to the common people. THE standard indicators of development, as is understood in theory and practice, comprise a range of indices, and not necessarily the level of private investment in...
More »Vidarbha farmers in debt trap: Here is how to save them -Vivian Fernandes
-The Financial Express How can the cotton and soybean farmers of Vidarbha and Marathwada supplement their incomes so they can get out of the trap of debt and self-engineered death? That was the theme of Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s ninth edition, four-day agricultural exhibition at Nagpur, called Agrovision, to which I was invited. A promising beginning has been made. In October last year, the National Dairy Development Board commenced operations. It...
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