-Livemint.com Panel aims to find ways to diversify risks in farming, examine how integrated farming can boost incomes New Delhi: The central government has set up a panel to suggest ways to double farm incomes by 2022, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The task of the inter-ministerial committee will prepare a blueprint to transition farm policies from being production oriented to based on incomes or value addition. The committee will look...
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Most of rural India still opts for open defecation: NSS report
-The Hindu Jharkhand has lowest percentage of households with toilets while Sikkim has the most More than half the rural population of the country still opts for open defecation, says the recently released Swachhta Status Report by the National Sample Survey (NSS) Office. The nation-wide rapid Survey was conducted during May-June 2015, concurrently with the 72nd round of the NSS. The Survey was to track the government’s flagship programme, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan....
More »Nearly half of Indians survived on less than Rs.38 a day in 2011-12 -Tadit Kundu
-Livemint.com The Global Consumption and Income Project suggests that official statistics might be understating the extent of poverty How much of India is poor? And by how much has that number reduced over the years? This is an old debate and the answers to these questions vary greatly depending on the choice of the Survey method and the poverty line. According to official statistics , India’s poverty rate declined from 45% in...
More »Just 4 institutes account for a third of India’s research output -Sanchita Sharma
-Hindustan Times India has the best and the worst medical education in the world, according to a review of the world’s largest database of peer-reviewed literature. Four medical colleges in India are among the top 10 global institutions that published the most research between 2004 and 2014, while around 60% of the country’s 579 medical institutions have published no research in a decade. Only 25 (4.3%) institutions published more than 100 papers a...
More »Bureaucrats pip poor to poverty line! -Kapil Dave
-The Times of India Gandhinagar: The delayed implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) by the Gujarat government from April 1 has thrown up a rather unappetizing truth. More than 1.58 lakh people with permanent government jobs, four wheelers, five or more acres of land, monthly income of Rs 10,000 and paying income-tax -- were feeding off wheat and rice at Rs 2 per kg and highly subsidized sugar and kerosene...
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