-Live Mint As United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi prepares to intervene next week in the great national debate about who is poor, she might want to visit north-eastern Mumbai to see how the poorest are not even classified as such and how a giant government scheme to save their children from malnutrition is failing. The nauseating stench from a mountain of garbage greets a visitor to Rafi Nagar at the base...
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Centre proposes to merge rural and urban health missions by Aarti Dhar
The Centre proposes to merge the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the yet-to-be-launched National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in the 13th Five-Year-Plan period. The two ambitious Missions will be separate entities in the upcoming 12th Five-Year-Plan period, after the launch of the urban health mission, but subsequently merged. In its proposals to the Planning Commission, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the National Urban Health Mission...
More »Saranda: den to showpiece by Basant Kumar Mohanty
As many as 56 villages in the Saranda forests, freed from over 10 years of Maoist dominance in a month-long offensive in August, is set to see a new era of development with the Centre planning to showcase it as a test case to prove that police action is no impediment to building social infrastructure. Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who visited the Jharkhand capital last week, has sent a...
More »And the pay-to-print saga resumes by P Sainath
The Delhi High Court has handed both the political circuit and the media a ticking parcel with its judgment in the Ashok Chavan case. It shouldn't be long before we learn what's ticking. (What's not ticking is the media. Subdued quiet seems the norm.) The former Maharashtra Chief Minister had challenged the power of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to go into the truth or falsity of his 2009...
More »Take part in Beti Bachao campaign, Chauhan appeals to Manmohan
-The Pioneer Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take part in Beti Bachao campaign. In a quasi-official letter in this connection, Chouhan has given details about the campaign and appealed to him to take part in it. Chouhan has informed in his letter that the Beti Bachao campaign is being run in Madhya Pradesh since October 5 with a view to improving girls’...
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