-Counterview.net If a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act is to be believed, a whopping 3.96 lakh ration cards have Been deleted from the National Food Security Act (NFSA) benefit in Gujarat. This comes to over 15 lakh people, all of them belonging to tribal and backwards areas. They have Been thrown out of the subsided ration cover despite the current Covid situation. As per NFSA, passed in 2013...
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Sustained efforts required to reduce multidimensional poverty amidst the pandemic
Multidimensional poverty is about non-monetary poverty and is strongly associated with the challenges of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although previously defined only in monetary terms, poverty is now understood to include the lived reality of people’s experiences and the multiple deprivations they face. India’s multidimensional headcount ratio (H) i.e. the proportion or incidence of people (within a given population) who experience multiple deprivations has reduced from 55.1 percent to...
More »The new urban poor in Mumbai: Salaries gone, pawning gold to pay school fees, NGO meals, rents unpaid -Mayura Janwalkar and Sadaf Modak
-The Hindu These families are on the brink of urban poverty, forced to do what they once thought was impossible — borrowing for their children's school fees, defaulting on EMIs, falling back on rent, cutting down on necessities. Mumbai: MANY locks in the nation’s financial capital are being opened one by one, new Covid numbers are falling but most doors — or windows — to any opportunity to earn are still firmly...
More »UP cow slaughter law is being misused against innocent: Allahabad HC -Manish Sahu
-The Indian Express The data show that closure reports were filed in 32 cases after the police failed to gather evidence against the accused. Lucknow: EXPRESSING CONCERN over the misuse of UP’s Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act “against innocent persons”, and questioning the credibility of evidence submitted by police in such cases, the Allahabad High Court said that measures have to be taken to protect abandoned cattle for the law to be...
More »Arsenic-laced water kills over one million in India’s Ganga basin -Kapil Kajal
-TheThirdPole.net Over thirty years since high levels of arsenic was found in groundwater in West Bengal, little has Been done to avert a slow-burn health crisis In the Indo-Gangetic plains, there are many widow-villages where the men have died from drinking water laced with arsenic. Women often come to the area to marry and so are only affected later in life. In India, over one million people have died in the last...
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