-ThePrint.in Stakeholders ask Modi govt to import milk & milk products to create buffer stock. This would make India a net importer for the first time since 2011-12. New Delhi: A shortage of fodder and a resultant decline in milk production and procurement has MEAnt that prices of the essential item could increase by Rs 8-10 in the summer. Citing this dairy shortage, multiple milk federations and the Indian Ice-Cream Manufacturers’ Association (IICMA)...
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A rough patch
-The Indian Express High inflation reduces room for rate cuts. With limited fiscal space, FM must spell out plans to revive growth. Latest inflation data seems to corroborate fears articulated by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its December meeting when it refrained from cutting the benchmark repo rate. Retail inflation, as MEAsured by the consumer price index (CPI), has surged to 7.35 per cent in December 2019, up from 5.54 per...
More »Infant deaths in Kota were not sudden. JK Lon Hospital has always been understaffed and ill-equipped
-Scroll.in The average occupancy of the hospital is 220%, MEAning that at least two patients share each bed. Rukhsaar Bano, 22, gave birth to her first child on December 16, 2019. Beauty, born a healthy 2.7 kg, spiked a fever on December 29, and the new mother took her to JK Lon hospital in Kota, 240 km south of state capital Jaipur. Beauty was two weeks old when she died a few...
More »After fertilisers, Centre wants food subsidy to directly benefit farmers -Harikishan Sharma & Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express In Odisha, procurement of paddy during the ongoing 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) is, for the first time, being done from registered farmers only after Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. FIRST IT was fertilisers, where the NDA government made disbursal of subsidy conditional upon actual sales to farmers getting registered on PoS (Point of Sale) machines in retail outlets. That reform MEAsure — to ensure that the benefit of minimum support...
More »How India remains poor: As many as 22 states have become poorer -Kiran Pandey
-Down to Earth Latest NITI Aayog counts no state as ‘achiever’; overall performance of most ‘performing’, ‘laggard’ states towards cutting poverty dipped With every fifth Indian still below the poverty line, the country needs to take huge strides to alleviate poverty. For most states, though, it did not seem the priority, going by the poverty score card in the SDG Index 2019-20 released by the NITI Aayog just before 2019 ended. The index...
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