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Food Corporation of India is prepared to implement Food Security Law: KV Thomas -Sutanuka Ghosal
-The Economic Times KOLKATA: In the wake of the just-enacted National Food Security Act, the Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution, Prof KV Thomas recently reviewed the operations of Food Corporation of India (FCI), especially from the point of view of its preparedness for implementing the law. Expressing satisfaction after the review, Prof. Thomas said the FCI had been undertaking various steps in the last one year towards increasing the storage...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The recent communal violence in Muzaffarnagar has once again brought home the danger of playing politics with religious beliefs. In the past eight years, there have been nearly a thousand communal incidents across the country. While the casualties are countable - 965 dead and over 18,000 injured - the toll on India's economic and social fabric is beyond any metric. More than half of these...
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-Kafila.org This fact-finding exercise was coordinated by the CENTRE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS. Team members were the human rights activist and former civil servant Harsh Mander; former Director-General of the Border Security Force, E N Rammohan; Professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of Jawaharlal Nehru University; National Integration Council member John Dayal; senior journalist Sukumar Muralidharan and CPA Director and senior editor Seema Mustafa. Introduction and Overview The first impression of the Muzaffarnagar countryside, now green...
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-Frontline The government pushes through the Land Acquisition Bill, but critics say it will take away more than what it purports to give. CLOSE on the heels of the passing of the National Food Security Bill, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government pushed through its other game-changer initiative, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013, or LARR Bill, ostensibly to address the injustices...
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