-The Hindu Officials are still in the process of finding out requirements across the State Chennai: Nearly one month after the State government announced that breakfast will be provided in schools as part of noon meal scheme, officials are still figuring out the modalities of implementation, including the food variety and age group to be covered. “We are surveying the requirements across the State,” said a senior official from the Department of Social...
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Governments Have Ignored SC Orders on Drought, Say Activists -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Centre and state governments have not followed through on providing food grains, mid-day meals, loans or MGNREGA payments. New Delhi: Six people’s movements and organisations that have come together as an informal consortium to monitor the response of governments to the drought situation in large parts of the country slammed the Narendra Modi government as well as the states for their collective failure to act when nearly half the country’s population...
More »Yogendra Yadav, political scientist and co-founder of non-profit Swaraj Abhiyan, speaks to Livemint
-Livemint.com New Delhi: Back from a walk through drought-affected parts of the country, Yogendra Yadav, political scientist and co-founder of non-profit Swaraj Abhiyan, speaks on state compliance of Supreme Court orders, a booming private water market in Marathwada, and why farmer movements are weakest at a time when agrarian distress is at its peak. Edited excerpts from an interview: * You just came back from a trip to Bundelkhand and Marathwada. What...
More »Social Activists demand for timely release of MGNREGA funds for employment creation
-Press release from Aruna Roy Civil society activists working on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from different parts of the country have written to the Finance Minister and Rural Development Minister urging for immediate compliance with the Supreme Court judgment in the Swaraj Abhiyan drought case. Please click here to access the letter to the Finance Minister regarding Supreme Court Judgement on Drought. Please click here to access...
More »Counting the girls -P Anima
-The Hindu Business Line In Sirsa, Haryana’s westernmost district, the fight to end female foeticide includes tip-offs, thrilling chases and decoys “Chhori hai ! Kal marna tha , aaj mar gayi” (It’s a girl! She’ll have to die tomorrow, she died today). Deputy civil surgeon Viresh Bhushan’s face twists into a grimace as he recalls the incident at Sirsa’s Civil Hospital four years ago. A grandmother in her fifties had strangled to...
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