-The Hindustan Times Betul: She lives in a shanty in Jaiprakash slum area, Betul. The shanty is adjacent to highway as well as railway track and, therefore, throughout the day she had to put up with sound of heavy vehicles or the trains as she studied for her high school examination. But, such detractions were too small against her willpower and she stood first in the Merit list. Meet Poonam Ghore, daughter of...
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Death in parched farm field reveals growing India water tragedy -Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Archana Chaudhary
-Live Mint/ Bloomberg Conflicts between industry and farMers getting worse as water becomes more and more scarce Sachin Ingale slipped out of his family's two-room, white-painted mud hut about 4pm and walked into their farm field where the 22-year-old took a deep swig of pesticide from a plastic bottle. He died later that evening. Four months later, the Mercury is pushing 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in his village in...
More »Inequality re-eMerges as a core concern, needs a new definition-Ali Mehdi
-The Economic Times What is... Inequality has re-eMerged as a core concern in developing and developed countries alike, thanks to the growing gap and frustration of a section of the middle class and the rich vis-a-vis the super rich. A World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (No. 6259) by Branko Milanovic shows that the incomes of the global top 1 per cent and the eMerging middle classes in developing countries rose dramatically between...
More »A report card for India’s states -Pranjul Bhandari
-Live Mint Cherry-picked indicators of progress cannot convey the complexities of development in India's diverse states Which Indian states have fared better than their peers and which ones have done relatively worse is a perennial question for discussion. There is more at stake than Mere grading of states here. Investment flows, central government funds and praises for being a good state are all linked to this seemingly straightforward question. It seems to...
More »Ramesh cut to size on red action plan -Yatish Yadav
-The New Indian Express In a war of letters between Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth over ways to tackle the Naxalite menace, the minister has eMerged the loser. In 2012, the minister had criticised the UPA's flagship programme-the Integrated Action Plan (IAP)-which has been designed to tackle Left Wing Extremism (LWE) through development projects. Last July, he had asked the Prime Minister to scrap the IAP-the brainchild...
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