-PTI Rice procurement stood at 9.04 million tonnes in the current kharif marketing season (October-September) so far. According to the official data, 90,46,356 tonnes of rice has been procured by various government agencies by November 4, 2011. Punjab has procured 69,56,290 tonnes, while Haryana and Tamil Nadu have procured 18,09,194 tonnes and 1,76,486 tonnes, respectively in the 2011-12 kharif season so far. Food Corporation of India (FCI), government's nodal procurement agency, along with other...
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Fresh sparring between Congress and NCP over Jairam's suggestion
-The Hindu Congress taunts its coalition partner, asks it to first take care of its existing portfolios Sparring over portfolios between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra has begun anew after Union Minister Jairam Ramesh's suggestion that the Rural Development Department implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). While the NCP is happy about the suggestion, the Congress — which holds the Water Conservation and Employment Guarantee...
More »Dantewada's dilemma by Smita Gupta
The tribal people of Chhattisgarh are in an extremely dangerous situation, caught as they are between the state forces and the Maoists. THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Soni Sori, an Adivasi schoolteacher from Chhattisgarh, was arrested in Delhi on October 4 on charges of acting as a conduit between the Essar group and the Maoists, the former accused of giving “protection money” to the latter. On October 7, she moved the Delhi High Court to...
More »We've to make 1.2 billion count
-The Hindustan Times Where was the seventh billionth baby born on Monday? While Uttar Pradesh seems to have been the destination of choice for the new arrival into this world, the Philippines also staked a claim. Notwithsta-nding the celebrations, there are enough reasons to worry because a growing population means more pressure on the world's stretched resources. For India and its galloping population, the future is much more challenging: while we...
More »The RTEs of passage by Rukmini Banerji & Michael Walton
India has achieved close to universal enrolment. The small proportion of children who are still out of school, the hardest to reach, will be pulled in by the efforts emanating from the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Now we must focus on the next challenge, a massive and less visible one, that of ensuring that every child gets an effective education of good quality. Schools must give children a real...
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