-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Urban development minister Hardeep Puri inaugurated NDMC's green "happiness areas" in Yashwant Place, Nyay Marg and North Avenue on Tuesday. Puri said that these areas developed by New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) would help to relieve the mental stress and physical fatigue of residents and help to reduce the air pollution as well. He said that NDMC, under the smart city projects, has started a number...
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Average size of farms falls to 1.08 ha in 2015-16
-The Hindu Business Line 2.45 million has been lost to urban sprawl between 2010-11 and 2015-16, says survey New Delhi: In an indication of further deepening of a crisis in the agricutural sector, the average size of operational agricultural holdings in the country has declined to 1.08 hectares (ha) in 2015-16 as compared to 1.15 ha in 2010-11, according to the freshly- released provisional agriculture census data released on Monday. Expectedly, the number...
More »Doodh-roti and laughter in Madhya Pradesh village of centenarians -Amarjeet Singh
-The Times of India ASTHA (MP): Shankar Singh looks at you with amused eyes. “Ek sau do(102),” he replies — and the twinkle in his eyes says he got the reaction he wanted. Then, as you try some mental calculations, he helps out with the maths: “I was 31 at Independence and voted in the very first election. I’m sure the next one won’t be the last.” As you gape at him,...
More »'When a brother goes down a sewer to clean it, we look the other way' -Sudha G Tilak
-The Hindu Business Line Hounded for her documentary on the horrors of manual scavenging, filmmaker Divya Bharathi holds up a mirror to social indifference A conspiracy of silence — that’s how filmmaker Divya Bharathi describes the uneasy quiet that shrouds the death of men and children in sewage tanks. Earlier this month, when six men choked to death in Delhi, the reaction was on expected lines — nothing beyond knee-jerk moves, she...
More »57% of regular Indian employees earn less than Rs. 10,000
-Livemint.com The ‘State of Working India’ report by Azim Premji University shows that the low wage is so evident that people earning Rs. 50,000 or more constitute just 1.6% of the total workforce in India New Delhi: Despite economic growth and gradual formalization of the workforce, low wages and wage growth remain key challenges with 57% of regular employees earning Rs. 10,000 or less a month, a new report published on Tuesday...
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