-PTI Medha Patkar made a strong pitch for retaining the 'Social Impact Assessment' and 'Consent' clauses of Land Acquisition Act The government was on Monday under attack from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and farmer organisations over the contentious land acquisition Bill, with activist Medha Patkar leading the protest against changes brought in the 2013 land law of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). Several organisations, including National Alliance for Farmers Movement (NAFM), All India Coordination...
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In 2 years, 40,000 tonnes of grain went down the drain -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: At a time when fears of another drought year are looming large, an RTI application filed by TOI has revealed that the quantity of foodgrains damaged in Food Corporation of India godowns across the country recorded a drastic jump over the last two years when the country lost more than 40,000 tonnes. Though the losses are attributed to natural calamities like cyclone and floods, experts say...
More »Anganwadis to go hi-tech, record nutrition data on tablet PCs
-PTI NEW DELHI: Anganwadi centres across the country will soon go hi-tech with the government planning to equip them with tablet PC devices installed with a customised software for regular monitoring of nutrition supply to malnourished children. The software will enable anganwadi workers (AWWs) to upload various data like dietary intake and health updates of children and supply of foodgrains and supplementary nutrition on a daily basis. The move will help the government...
More »Better-off ladies get hostel gate pass -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Working women from the higher-income groups are now eligible to stay at government hostels, with income ceiling for applicants raised from Rs 30,000 a month to Rs 50,000 in urban areas and from Rs 25,000 to Rs 35,000 in rural areas. But with vacancies hard to come by and an unwritten rule favouring the less well-off between any two applicants, women with higher salaries may have to wait...
More »Nutrition scientists: unsung heroes and their role in Swasth Bharat -D Balasubramanian
-The Hindu The National Nutrition Monitoring Board (NNMB), set up in 1972, has been doing silent, and remarkable service to the nation. We tend to look at a nation’s progress increasingly, and almost exclusively, in terms of its economic and business statistics. India is now invited to the high table as a growing economy, with its annual financial growth rate of over 4 per cent. Internally too, we have setup many mechanisms,...
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