-The Times of India A Reserve Bank of India paper says that the UPA flagship MGNREGA or the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, under which a household is assured of 100 days of wages per year in return for working on various rural development, has not actually contributed to the rise in food inflation as generally perceived. Incidently, the Reserve Bank was among the first to point that the...
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Krishi Vigyan Kendra Let us Down: Farmers
-The New Indian Express Knocks chief secy's door saying they have been suffering without help for three years PUDUCHERRY (Tamil Nadu): The Puducherry Certified Seed Producers Welfare Association has petitioned the Chief Secretary Chetan B Sanghi, seeking his intervention in the functioning of the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Krishi Vigyan Kendra (PKKVK), a centre to serve farmers, at Iyankuttipalayam. In a memorandum to the Chief Secretary on Saturday a copy of which was released to...
More »Having Lost His Eye Sight, He Built A Successful Company With 200 Other Visually Impaired People -Shreya Pareek
-TheBetterIndia.com Bhavesh Bhatia lost his eyesight in his early 20s. As the light faded from his eyes, instead of lamenting on his fate, he decided to learn the art of candle making and light up the lives of others like him. Bhatia today runs a huge candle manufacturing enterprise that provides Employment to hundreds of visually impaired people and has clients across the globe. Read how this inspiring man converted this...
More »Is the proposed restructuring of MNREGA desirable? -Ashwini Kulkarni
-Livemint The proposed changes in MNREGA will undermine the very reason for which the Act was passed The present central government of India rode high into the office, promising development with good governance. This certainly was a welcome signal to organizations like ours working at grassroots who experience, day after day, that good-intentioned social policies get stuck in ill-designed programmes. There is a huge governance deficit in the delivery of social development...
More »Round-the-clock veterinary services -EM Manoj
-The Hindu Kalpetta (Kerala): The Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) is preparing to execute an innovative project, ‘e-Vet connect,' for the farming community in the State. The project envisages providing 24-hour veterinary service to the farming community across the State at just a phone call, says B. Ashok, Vice Chancellor, KVASU. In the first phase, the project will be launched in the Kalpetta, Ollur, and the Thrissur Assembly constituencies by...
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