-The Indian Express Also, the lack of co-ordination between health and Women and Child Development (WCD) departments has also been highlighted in the report. Ahmedabad: WITH OVER 1.45 lakh children under the age of six in Gujarat identified with the Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), the state fails to identify any specific targets in their mission statements to overcome malnutrition, reveals the latest edition of Global Nutrition Report (GNR). Also, the lack...
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Bundelkhand's Roti Bank now feeds twice a day -Shailvee Sharda
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Within a year of its inception, Mahoba's Roti Bank has grown. It now takes home-cooked rotis and vegetable to almost 1,000 persons twice a day. A humble beginning by group of 40 youths and five elders in April 2015 under the aegis of Bundeli Samaj, roti bank has turned into a model for many do-gooders across India. "We get at least 2-3 calls everyday from people who...
More »Big debate: Doubling of farm income in 6 years -Ajay Vir Jakhar
-The Economic Times blog Prayers have been answered, monsoon has made landfall in Kerala, close to where Vasco da Gama landed in 1498. Potentially, the impact on political fortunes will be no less. This government has promised to double farm incomes in six years and economists argued that this would be impossible because it would entail a 12% annual growth in incomes; unprecedented globally. Starting from such abysmally low farm income...
More »The culling fields -TR Shankar Raman
-The Hindu A better approach to man-wildlife conflict management requires an integration of scientific evidence, animal behaviour, and landscape and socio-economic context The difference of views on the killing of wild animals between a former and a SITting Environment Minister of the ruling party — one in favour, the other against — has hit the front pages. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recently permitted three States, Uttarakhand, Bihar, and...
More »One month on, willful disobedience of the Supreme Court’s historic order on drought -Swaraj Abhiyan
-Press Release from Swaraj Abhiyan Following the historic order of the Supreme Court of India in the Swaraj Abhiyan PIL on drought, various peoples movements have taken initiatives to monitor the ground SITuation of drought relief. Swaraj Abhiyan in association with Ekta Parishad, Jal Biradari and National Alliance of People’s Movements organised Jal-Hal yatra from Latur to Mahoba (21st May to 31st May). Similar yatras were organised in Telangana (2nd to...
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