The Government of India has formally launched the news Guidelines of the MGNAREGA based on the Mihir Shah Committee report. The news guidelines include many new works under conservation activities and it strengthens the hands of the village panchayats and gram sabhas. However, the list of works does not include the activities under the system of rice intensification (SRI) which encourages scientific method of paddy cultivation with better yield in...
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Taking pills? Doctors warn on natural supplements-Malathy Iyer
When a corporate executive recently landed in the emergency ward of Hiranandani Hospital in Powai with palpitations, doctors first checked his heart. When tests ruled out any cardiac problem, they found an unlikely culprit-too many cups of green tea. "After talking to him, we realized he had had over a dozen cups of green tea within the span of a few hours,'' said cardiologist Ganesh Kumar. Some brands of green tea...
More »Standard and poor? SCs, STs in Kerala, Tamil Nadu better off than others-Rukmini Shrinivasan
New census data on asset ownership among different social groups has shown that a far higher proportion of scheduled castes and higher still of scheduled tribes do not own basic consumer durables like a phone or bicycle as compared to "others". Three states however buck this trend; across caste groupings in Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the rate of ownership of basic consumer durables is high. In fact, the asset ownership...
More »Put My View On The Table-Anuradha Raman
Dalits, OBCs in India’s colleges are using beef as a symbol of a resurgent identity “Non-Brahmins have evidently undergone a revolution. From being beef-eaters to have become non-beef-eaters was indeed a revolution. But if non-Brahmins underwent one revolution, Brahmins had undergone two. They gave up beef-eating, which was one revolution. To have given up meat-eating altogether and become vegetarians was another revolution.” —B.R. Ambedkar *** The Beef Menu Available In Kerala,...
More »With A Pinch Of Doubt -Amba Batra Bakshi
Double fortified salt is a good idea but... Iodine & Iron Iodised salt came to India in the late 1950s Today, 80 per cent of India uses iodised salt, which has reduced the incidence of goitre Fortifying salt with both iodine and iron can help fight another widespread condition—anaemia Double fortified salt, or DFS, could prove to be a game-changer in the fight against malNutrition But if the fight against...
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