-The Hindu Novel project by Tambaram municipality generates gas from sewage in Bharat Nagar public toilet Chennai: Residents of Bharat Nagar in Selaiyur now have access to free, eco-friendly gas for their kitchen use. Tambaram municipality on Friday launched a bio-methanation plant that will produce gas from sewage generated in a public toilet. This comes in the wake of a good response to the municipality's novel project, ‘Namma Toilet' to improve sanitation in...
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Computer criterion in urban poor count -Sobhana K
-The Telegraph The SR Hashim committee, formed in 2010 to help identify the urban poor, has suggested criteria to automatically count in and count out households from the poverty list and assign scores to the rest. According to the recommendations, ownership of computer with an Internet connection will exclude a household from the poverty list. The report has been submitted to the housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry. Sources in the ministry described...
More »Despite slight drop, number of children missing out on school remains high, UN agency reports
-The United Nations New figures today from the United Nations educational agency show that the number of children out of school dipped slightly last year over 2011. Fifty-seven million children were out of school in 2011, according to the UN Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics, down just two million from the previous year. The agency also points out that the challenge of getting more children into school is being...
More »To End Extreme Poverty, Learn from a Small Village in India-Sri Mulyani Indrawati
-The World Bank blog "Five years ago, I was no one," said Kunti Devi to me, sitting up straight against the wall of her one-room mud hut in Bara, a small village in India's eastern state of Bihar. "Now, people know me by my own name, not just by the name of my children." I was sitting on the floor, across from Devi, a mother of eight, who belonged to one of...
More »With universal PDS, TN lukewarm about Food Security Bill-T Ramakrishnan
-The Hindu State officials are apprehensive of targeted coverage and allocations Chennai: The National Food Security Bill, which is again in news these days, may be generating much excitement in most parts of the country, but not in Tamil Nadu. The reason: a more comprehensive model in the form of universal public distribution system is in place. Successive State governments in Tamil Nadu have held that the coverage of the PDS should be...
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