-The Telegraph New Delhi: Maneka Gandhi today unveiled a new tool to fight malnutrition - a mobile app. In a first of its kind effort, the Union ministry for women and child development unveiled the application that would chart the nutrition status of every child under the Integrated Child Development Scheme and alert health workers through colour-coded graphs. Apart from day-to-day tracking of each child, the app - developed in collaboration with the...
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Modi govt wakes up too late to the agrarian crisis -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com A look at the past three budgets shows that the government took note of the crisis only in 2016 On 24 April 2014, about a month before Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formed a new government at the centre, the India Meteorological Department made an ominous forecast. The four-month-long southwest monsoon which irrigates more than half of India’s farmlands was likely to be deficient. Over the next few months the...
More »79% of women in India faced public harassment
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Nearly four of five women (79%) in India have experienced some form of harassment or violence in public and a third groped or touched in public (39%), according to a ActionAid UK report released on Friday on occasion of the International Safe Cities for Women Day. India is third among four countries surveyed which includes UK, Thailand and Brazil. The YouGov poll, which surveyed 2,500 women...
More »Debate: Are Some Suicides More Important Than Others? -Jahnavi Sen
-TheWire.in According to NCRB data for 2014, the suicide rate for ‘housewives’ was more than double that of farmers, though the latter gets far more media attention. What does this really indicate? In 2014, National Crime Records Bureau data showed that 20,148 housewives took then own lives across the country. This amounts to approximately 18% of all suicides that year. A recent article in the Economic and Political Weekly by political scientist Peter...
More »Social Justice Has Been Thrown Out of the Window By Centre: SC
-Outlook (The Newswire) The Supreme Court today slammed the Centre for not giving compensation to workers for delayed payment of work under MNREGA scheme in drought-like situation and said it "does not behove a welfare state" as "social justice has been thrown out of the window". The apex court said it was extremely unfortunate that government had no provision for providing compensation to the workers and it was also regrettable that it...
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