-The Indian Express The food security act is inadequate to meeting the malnutrition challenge. Malnutrition remains one of the biggest challenges facing India. In the last large survey, the National Family Health Survey of 2005-06, about 42 per cent children under the age of five were underweight. Economic growth has failed to redress this problem. Recently released estimates from the District Level Health Survey for selected states continue to paint a dismal...
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Disadvantaged groups have little access to public goods, says India exclusion report -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Most severely and consistently excluded groups are women, Adivasis, Muslims and the disabled, report confirms A recent report by a Delhi NGO undermines government claims on reaching welfare schemes to the needy and disadvantaged sections of society. The report, titled The India Exclusion Report 2013-14, says the government has failed miserably in providing equal access to public goods to the most disadvantaged groups. The report, prepared by Delhi-based Centre for...
More »With paddy season in, farmers out in search of migrant labour -Sachin Sharma
-The Hindustan Times Bhatinda: With the paddy transplantation season set to start from June 10 across the state officially, farmers have started search for the labour and are making rounds of railway stations and bargaining hard with the migrant workers to fix the deal. As the farmers had faced acute shortage of workforce in the last paddy season in the state, they are making sure that they do not have to...
More »Pokkali farms in west Kochi take the mechanized route
-The Times of India KOCHI: A mini tiller was presented to the farmers in Edavanakkad to help them prepare the field for the pokkali crop as the monsoon sets in this week. The tiller machine was handed over on Tuesday by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Ernakulam, which functions under the Centre for Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Ernakulam. Last month, the machine was given a trial run at different pokkali fields. "The tiller...
More »High Time Odhisha adopted rural housing policy-Manas Jena
-The Pioneer Bhubaneswar: Home is an integral part of life and determinant of standard of living and progress of society. Rural Odisha witnesses a very poor standard of habitation and lack of proper housing for lakhs of poor people who are dreaming of a house of their own to live with dignity. Socio-cultural barriers, landlessness and lack of credit for housing are some of the major reasons which deprive rural poor of...
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