-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which administers Aadhaar, said that six members of the family of the 11-year-old Jharkhand girl who allegedly died of Starvation had Aadhaar and stringent action must be taken against those who allegedly denied her benefits under food subsidy scheme. Activists have alleged that the 11-year-old girl in Simdega district died of Starvation as her family's ration card was cancelled...
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Denied food because she did not have Aadhaar-linked ration card, Jharkhand girl dies of Starvation -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in Supreme Court guidelines have made it clear beneficiaries cannot be denied access to welfare schemes even if they don’t have Aadhaar, activists say. An 11-year-old girl in Jharkhand’s Simdega district has died of Starvation last fortnight, months after her family’s ration card was cancelled because it was not linked to their Aadhaar number, say Right to Food Campaign activists. With no school mid-day meals available during her Durga Puja holidays,...
More »India needs more fodder to prevent cattle Starvation -Abhishek Rajan
-VillageSquare.in The estimated increase in cattle population due to growth in dairy farming and ban on cow slaughter will need increased production of fodder and restoration of common pastures to prevent livestock Starvation Nashik (Maharashtra): The milk that we drink everyday does not appear from thin air. A dedicated amount of feed and fodder is needed for the cattle to survive and to produce milk. Providing the right quantity of feed is...
More »The unsuitable boy of India's cattle economy -Abhishek Rajan
-VillageSquare.in The problem of male cattle in India, the world’s largest milk-producing country, remains in limbo even as farmers grapple with latest government regulations that severely restrict cattle trade and culling Alpesh Patel, a small farmer in Mogari village of Anand district in Gujarat, owns three crossbreed female cattle and earns supplemental income by selling milk to the nearest dairy co-operative. He strives to keep his herd efficient for milk production by...
More »In Bastar villages where few have Aadhaar, PDS officials fear they will have to say no -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express For villages such as Pidia and Gampur who are caught between government orders and Maoist diktats, “consent” means little. In Pidia, of 485 ration cards, there are 25 that are Aadhaar-seeded. In Gampur, the number is 17 of 283. Gangaloor: For at least two months, Mahendra Hemla has been having the same conversation with the villagers. They come, the entire village of Pipdia almost at once, to his small...
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