-The Hindu Former Justice K.S. Puttaswamy, who went to court against the linking of state benefits to the UID scheme, says much money has been wasted on the ‘dangerous' project The Supreme Court order restraining the linking of services and benefits to the 12-digit Aadhaar number has placed in doubt ambitious plans by the Centre and several State governments to make the ‘voluntary' Aadhaar scheme mandatory for access to services and subsidies....
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Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System -Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera
-eSocialSciences.com Presented are estimates of the impact of India's Public Distribution System on rural poverty, using National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 and official poverty lines. At the all-India level, the PDS is estimated to reduce the poverty-gap index of rural poverty by 18 to 22 percent. The corresponding figures are much larger for states with a well-functioning PDS, e.g. 61 to 83 per cent in Tamil Nadu and 39 to...
More »Thanks to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan and Anganwadi system, more and more village girls are going to school -Abheek Barman
-The Economic Times As elections approach and the campaign gets shriller, the UPA and opposition parties are in the market for talking points to pin each other down. The BJP gloats that it created more jobs in its five years than UPA-I managed to create between 2004 and 2009. This is correct: between 1999-2000 and 2004-05 when the BJP was in power, the total number of jobs went up by a little...
More »Green Revolution may not have been that revolutionary: Data -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India The Green Revolution is said to have revolutionised agriculture in India and helped the country achieve self-sufficiency in food production. However, government data shows more or less the same rate of growth of yields for various crops from 1951 to about 1990 suggesting that the 'revolution' might not have been as momentous as it is believed to be. In the India Rural Development Report 2012-13, released on...
More »No drinking water, electricity and sanitation in 20% of rural houses: Report
-The Times of India One in five rural households has none of three basic facilities - drinking water, electricity and sanitation - while only about 18% have access to all three. The India Rural Development Report 2012-13 released by Jairam Ramesh on Thursday also shows that while rural poverty has reduced significantly from over 40% to just 26%, there is large variation in poverty reduction between regions, districts and social classes...
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