Dispur has decided to set up a children welfare trust to adopt a holistic and comprehensive policy for physical and mental wellbeing of every child living in Assam. The trust will be headed by chief minister Tarun Gogoi and include personalities like industrialist Ratan Tata as its member. The government will formally float the trust on November 14 on the occasion of Children’s Day. Health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told...
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Ethiopians say Indians grabbing land.Indian farmers claim it is official by Shantanu Guha Ray
RAM KARUTURI, the world’s largest rose grower, calls it a situation that needs immediate intervention. Else, he is sure the rush of Indians to Africa will ebb to a trickle, which, in turn, could have serious implications as ethnic tensions with the locals are slowly, but steadily, rising in some parts of the continent. The hub of the crisis is Gambela, one of Ethiopia’s NINe states, for long starved of investment....
More »MGNREGS proves a boon for Wayanad tribes by C Gouridasan Nair
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has proved to be a boon for the tribal population in Wayanad district. It is the largest and the most successful livelihood programme under way in the tribes-dominated district. Women account for 775 of the person days of employment generated by the scheme, each of them earNINg Rs.125 as daily wage. The impact of the scheme on social structures has been significant,...
More »Above normal rains raise India harvest concerns
India’s monsoon rains were 19% above normal in the week to 15 Sept., the weather office said on Thursday, feeding concern cotton and groundnut harvests could be further delayed in Asia’s third-largest economy. “The monsoon withdrawal is unlikely at least in the next couple of days,” said a senior official of the weather office who did not wish to be named. Rains had already exceeded averages by 26% in the previous week. Signs...
More »Indian households spend 7% of total expenditure on healthcare, says survey
The out-of-pocket healthcare spending by Indians continues to push them further into poverty with the public spending on health is almost negligible, according to the India Health Report 2010. Studies have documented that households in India spend a disproportionate share of their consumption expenditure on health, with the contribution from government being almost negligible. Public spending on health is very low, stagnant at about 1 per cent of GDP, putting India...
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