-The Times of India Raipur: To make sure that no kid sleeps without food in drought-hit areas even when their schools take a summer break, Chhattisgarh government has decided to continue the supply of midday meals during summer vacation as well. Around 26 lakh children in 117 tehsil of 25 districts will benefit with the move. An official circular issued by education secretary Subrat Sahu stated that all students of government schools...

-The Hindu Business Line BusinessLine goes to villages, including those visited in 2014, to understand the progress of the ambitious National Optical Fibre Network. Unused infrastructure and low awareness tell a story of missed links In one corner of the Ramnagar village panchayat office, in Panisagar block of Tripura, is a defunct four-year-old computer. The machine, connected with a 10 mbps broadband line was supposed to bring digital services to this remote...

-The Times of India Raipur: CAG has pointed out several deficiencies in the implementation of mid-day meal scheme in Chhattisgarh. The mid-day meal scheme was launched on August 15, 1995, by Centre to boost universalisation of Primary education by increasing enrolment, retention and attendance, and simultaneously improving nutritional status of students in primary classes. The CAG report on General, Social and Economic (non-PSUs) for the year ended March 2015, which was...

-The Indian Express The percentage of the adult population for four large developing countries — China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria — who are living in cities, as well as the change in this percentage between 1975 and 2000, are plotted in chart. Rural-urban migration is exceptionally low in India. Changes in the rural and urban population between decennial censuses over the period 1961-2001 indicate that the migration rate for working age...

-Frontline The government’s passage of the Aadhaar Bill in complete disregard of even basic parliamentary procedures and in subversion of an ongoing judicial process puts at risk a number of constitutional rights and liberties of citizens. The benefits cited are just ploys to realise a neoliberal dream. “Congressmen are dancing as if [Aadhaar] was a herb for all cures. With the Supreme Court pulling up the Centre, people are now seeking...