-The Hindu The public distribution system (PDS) and its disbursal of rations to the poor have come under the scanner in Jharkhand after three persons died recently, allegedly owing to lack of food. What happened? On September 28, Santoshi Kumari, an 11-year-old from Simdega district, died. Her mother, Koyli Devi, said the child died of hunger as the family was not getting rations under the State-run PDS for the past several months. The...
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Seven Health Secretaries in Seven Years - Where Is the Accountability? -K Sujatha Rao
-TheWire.in The government should keep the secretary of the Health department unchanged for three years for him/her to be able to show results. But that has not been happening. The NDA government had promised good governance and policy stability. Yet we have a fourth secretary in the Health department in the last three years – the seventh in the last seven years. Since both the outgoing and the incoming officers have sterling...
More »Around 2.9 mn children in India without vaccination against measles
-PTI More than half of these unvaccinated children live in six countries — Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, a report said. New Delhi: Around 2.9 million children in India do not get vaccinated against measles, a highly contagious viral disease that claims nearly 90,000 lives globally every year, a new report published today by leading Health organisations said. The world is still far from reaching regional measles...
More »Karnataka government sees big scope for millets, pushes their cultivation -V Sajeev Kumar
-The Hindu Business Line The Karnataka government’s efforts to popularise millet cultivation seem to be yielding results, thanks to a rising consumer demand based on awareness about Healthy alternatives. Krishna Byre Gowda, Karnataka’s Agriculture Minister, cited drought, climate change and erratic monsoon as the driving factors for popularising millets such as ragi, jowar and bajra. These are less water-intensive crops compared to paddy or sugarcane and a shift to millet cultivation will help...
More »Stubble burning and pollution: It is a deeper question of the dignity and identity of farmers - Poonam Pandey, Govert Valkenburg, Annapurna Mamidipudi and Wiebe Bijker
-Hindustan Times How is it that farmers, who were celebrated as national heroes and saviors of the country after the Green Revolution, are now criminalised and called irresponsible? If they are feeding the nation, isn’t the problem of stubble burning a collective responsibility? Attempts by a range of agencies to address the issue of stubble burning in Punjab have repeatedly failed. We suggest that this is not only because we’ve missed...
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