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Arsenic filter for drinking water -Arti S Sahuliyar

-The Telegraph Jharkhand: Teeming arsenic and fluoride devils will no longer hold a thirsty Jharkhand to ransom. The state drinking water and sanitation department has made its first move to set up plants that can purge the contaminants before groundwater reaches households in several affected districts, including Ranchi. Special apparatus will be launched in the capital district and Sahebganj, where areas like Pathalkudwa and Rajmahal have high arsenic concentration in water - around...

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Rain-hit areas to get NREGS boost -Puja Mehra

-The Hindu NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya says farmers can't be fully compensated for crop Damage. The Union government will increase the number of work days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from 100 to 150 in places where the recent unseasonal rain and hailstorms have affected crops. The relief package will include cash compensation. In addition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought recommendations from NITI Aayog on how insurance...

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Congress gets into survey mode in Rajasthan -Smita Gupta

-The Hindu Aim of the exercise is to map Damage due to closure of 17,000 govt. schools. Eight months after the BJP government closed down 17,000 government schools in Rajasthan, dramatically pushing up the dropout rate largely among marginal communities, the Congress has decided to undertake a survey, starting in Jaipur's Amber block, to map the Damage. Once the audit is over, a campaign to force the State government to reopen the closed...

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From prosperity to penury -Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

-Frontline NAIB SINGH hanged himself a fortnight ago in the land he had been tilling for five years at Bareh village in Mansa district of Punjab. He had hoped for a successful rabi wheat crop, but unseasonal rains reduced him to further penury. The 25-year-old left behind a debt burden of Rs.10 lakh for his family. His mother, Mahinder Kaur, does not know whether to mourn her son's death or lament...

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Failing the farmer -CP Chandrasekhar

-Frontline Outcomes of the patterns of growth induced by neoliberal economic reforms have increased the disproportionality between agricultural and non-agricultural growth, and with costs rising and prices not keeping pace, agriculture is becoming increasingly unviable. FARMERS across northern and central India-in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and elsewhere-are distressed. Unseasonal rains have Damaged their standing crop and help from the government has been meagre and slow in coming. This, however, is...

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