-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Vijay Rupani, state water resources minister has stated that eight districts and around 1,000 villages in the state are facing an acute water crisis. Rupani said, "Due to insufficient rains for the last two years, eight districts — Jamnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surendranagar, Dahod, Panchmahal and Amreli — are facing a drinking water shortage. Around 1,000 villages are in crisis due to drying up of local...
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Grain vanishes from Punjab godowns; may burn Rs 12,000-crore hole in bank books -Sangita Mehta & MC Govardhana Rangan
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: The splotch of red ink on bank balance sheets is set to become bigger as a new scandal in the form of disappearing food stocks in Punjab godowns threatens to burn a Rs 12,000-crore hole in their books and embarrass the Parkash Singh Badal administration. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ordered all banks with exposure to the Punjab government's food borrowing programme to provide for potential...
More »Farmers in 8 States can now sell select commodities online
-The Hindu New Delhi: Farmers in eight States including UP, Gujarat and Rajasthan, will be able to sell 25 commodities online in 21 wholesale mandis from Thursday – the new platform hopefully fetching them better prices for their produce. “We have received proposals from 12 States for integration of 365 wholesale mandis. Of these, 21 mandis from eight States have been selected for the pilot launch,” Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said...
More »NITI Aayog sets timeline for social sector programmes -Yogima Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The NITI Aayog will draw up schedules for key social sector programmes to counter the criticism that implementation has been slow even two years after the Narendra Modi government took over. The Aayog's Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant made several outcome-based presentations to the Prime Minister last month on sectors such as education, health, rural development and infrastructure. Timelines have been established to achieve progress in areas...
More »Dalit educator’s death pushes Barmer village back in time -Vaibhav Jha
-Hindustan Times Barmer (Rajasthan): The last time clouds of despair descended on Trimohi, a hamlet in Rajasthan’s Barmer district about half a kilometre from the Pakistan border, was during the 1971 war. This time, the pain is a lot more personal. Delta Meghwal, 17, the first Dalit girl from the village to pursue higher education, was found dead in a water tank of the Jain Adarsh Teachers’ Training Institute for Girls in...
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