-Press Information Bureau (Ministry of Agriculture) In order to ensure agriculture growth in the rainfed areas. Government has launched a new scheme on" Rainfed Area Development Authority" I 2011-12 as a sub-scheme under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY). The scheme aims at offering quality of life of farmer's especially, small and marginal farmers by offering complete package of activities to maximize farm returns. During the year 2012-13, Rs. 157.3 crore has...
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A Dash of Sweetness for Mid-day Meal
-The Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government is toying with the idea of introducing laddu - made of millets - in the menu of mid day meal (MDM) to add a "dash of sweetness" for the school children. It is also contemplating to add banana to the platter. At a high-level meeting here on Thursday, the addition of a sweet dish in form of millet laddu and fruit in form of banana...
More »Mid-Day Meal Scheme Yet to Make Its Mark in Meghalaya
-Outlook Shillong: More than 18 years after it was rolled out in Meghalaya, the mid-day meal scheme has failed to keep children in schools or provide dietary nutrition - the two objectives of the centrally-sponsored scheme. A survey of the schools in the state where the scheme was launched in 1995 discovered that over 50 per cent children still suffered from stunted growth and that the food served is mostly deficient in...
More »World has enough food for all, but it does not reach everyone -RK Pachauri
-The Hindustan Times The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), from February 6 to 8, is focusing on the theme ‘Attaining Energy, Water and Food Security for All'. The set of issues defining the importance of the theme can be gauged from an assessment of the situation that we are facing. There are 1.3 billion people who have no access to electricity, and over twice the number are dependent on the use...
More »The faultlines of Birbhum -Madhuparna Das
-The Indian Express The gangrape may have brought the tribal councils of this West Bengal district to notoriety, but it wasn't the first sexual abuse on their orders. What is more at play here though is growing outside interference in a region considered a vote bank, writes Madhuparna Das. On January 29 evening, 900 people of a village in Birbhum district's Labhpur block gathered near the hut of their headman. The hut,...
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