-The Hindu WAYANAD (KERALA): All the farmers, especially the farmers in the modern generation are interested in adopting innovative techniques to increase the production of their crops or to reduce the cost of production. For which either they follow the advise of agriculture experts or simply emulate the agriculture practices of the progressive farmers in their area. Though many among them will try to to develop their own techniques but, very few...
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MDG report: India on track in reducing poverty -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu ‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 per cent in 2011, ahead of the 2015 deadline set by the U.N,, shows the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report, 2015, released on Tuesday. The report set the limit for extreme poverty as those living on $1.25 or less a day. The reduction...
More »Nudge to tweak TB treatment rules -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India could prevent on Average 18,000 people from developing multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis every year over the next decade if the health ministry accelerates proposed changes in TB diagnosis and treatment policies, public health experts have said. A study by the health ministry's TB division has estimated that India could avert 180,000 cases of MDR-TB between 2015 and 2025 if most patients who seek government treatment are tested for MDR-TB...
More »SCs in TN better off than FCs in Jharkhand -Rukmini S
-The Hindu National Averages hide State-level dynamics; SCs, STs worse off on Average. New data from the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 and the UNICEF’s Rapid Survey on Children (RSOC) show that while India’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have worse socio-economic indicators, this disadvantage is varies substantially depending on the State where they live. So SC and ST children in Tamil Nadu and Kerala are less likely to be underweight...
More »No Medicine for the Common ‘Jan’ -Archana Mishra
-Tehelka The NDA government’s move to open more Jan Aushadhi stores ignores the multitude of issues currently plaguing them Amidst the jostling crowd at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Shahdara, Delhi, is 68-year-old Suresh Chandra, holding his medical files on one hand and prescription letter on the other. Chandra, who is a lung disease patient, moves towards the Jan Aushadhi store, situated in the hospital premises. Chandra hopes that the government-run medical...
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