-The Pioneer Ranchi: A large number of ration card holders from Nagri and activists of Right to Food Campaign, led by noted socio-economist Jean Drèze on Monday marched to Raj Bhawan demanding immediate withdrawal of ‘Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for Food subsidy’ and restore the old system of providing rice at Re 1 per kg to the Poor people at ration shops. Drèze, who was stopped at Raj Bhawan by the district...
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Grid stability is key -Aditya Vora & Armin Rosencranz
-The Hindu The ambitious plan to help farmers earn from solar power generation hinges on small details Electricity is a major concern in rural India, especially for farmers. The Government of India has come up with an original plan to address this problem. Instead of transmitting electricity to the farmers, the government, to start with, wants farmers to use solar energy to power their irrigation pumps. According to the January 2018 report...
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-Hindustan Times Prioritise universal access of food grains since those dying of starvation are mainly the marginalised Forty-four-year-old mother, Amir Jahan, epitomised gallantry this Republic Day. There was not a morsel of food at home. So, while the nation celebrated, she quietly borrowed six rotis from a neighbour and distributed them equally among her three daughters, though she hadn’t eaten for four days. That night Amir died of starvation. In the first month...
More »Why are boys more malnourished than girls in India? -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth Going by a recent study on malnutrition in children in 10 Indian cities, parental bias for boys could be pushing them closer to junk food In India, it is generally believed girls are disempowered, that also affects their health. And, there are statistics to show their plight. The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of 2016 shows around 55 per cent women are anaemic while just about half of them,...
More »'Two rotis and no one sleeps hungry': Hyderabad man's campaign completes a year -Nitin B
-TheNewsMinute.com 38-year-old Azhar Maqsusi is famous across the city and the country for relentlessly feeding hundreds of people every day. What do you do when you see children begging at a traffic junction in a crowded city? What would happen if you give them ‘two rotis’ instead of money? This is exactly what 38-year-old Azhar Maqsusi from Hyderabad has been advocating for the past one year, with his ‘do roti’ (two rotis) campaign....
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