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BPL card holders to be treated free of cost at AIIMS by Abantika Ghosh

Poor patients will soon get free treatment at the country’s premier medical institute without having to run from pillar to post. The Institute Body of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday decided to give free treatment to all BPL card holders. AIIMS has been asked to prepare a proposal and submit it to the Union Health Ministry for sanction of funds under the plan head for the...

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More couples adopting family Planning measures by Aarti Dhar

The total number of family Planning acceptors in the country has increased by 3.5 per cent between 2010 and 2011. Latest official statistics have shown that condom is the most preferred method of family Planning while sterilisations the least adopted means. The comparative figures between April and September 2010 and 2011 put the number of couples adopting some method for family Planning, including spacing methods, is close to 24 million, with at...

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Lavasa takes objection to High Court petition filed by tribals

-PTI Days after two tribals from Pune district filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging a Government notification which empowers Lavasa Corp to act as a special Planning authority, the company termed the move as "motivated and malafide".  The realty firm, constructing a hill city (called Lavasa) near Pune, said the tribals, residents of Mulshi taluka, have no locus to file the petition since they are not owners of land...

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Decision on new BPL cap only after SECC, standing panel reports by K Balchand

The Union government and the Planning Commission will take a decision on the new Below Poverty Line (BPL) cap only after a report is submitted by the Parliamentary Committee on the Food Security Bill and the completion of the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC). As things stand, divergent views have already surfaced raising a question mark on the fate of the Food Security Bill. Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen said...

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Rise of livestock by Richard Mahapatra

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain Policy makers in India are finally acknowledging a structural shift in the agriculture sector they have been noticing for a decade. Economic contribution of livestock is today more than that of food grain crops. Traditionally, of the three components of the sector—crops, livestock and fisheries—crops drove the growth, and food grains are a major part of it....

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