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India ready with draft policy to reduce emissions from deforestation -Vishwa Mohan

-The Times of India   NEW DELHI: Taking forward an agreed framework of the 2013 Warsaw climate conference, India has come out with a draft national policy on 'reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (popularly known as REDD+ initiative) which will enable local communities to get financial incentives for increasing forest cover. The REDD+ initiative is a global mitigation mechanism under a UN body, linking deforestation, degradation, conservation of forest carbon...

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Oil companies go solar to light up lives of 1m school kids -Sanjay Dutta

-The Times of India   NEW DELHI: State-run oil biggies are to tap solar power to light up the lives of one million school-going kids and help them shine in academics. The companies are to provide solar home lighting systems so the children can study after dark without suffering the heat and toxic fumes of kerosene lamps. The project is to be implemented in districts with high consumption of kerosene on "area...

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Cong fails to capitalise on MGNREGS success in TN -R Sathyanarayana

-Deccan Herald   Chennai: Once the source of her livelihood, the farmland 51-year-old Vellamal owns in Kallupatti village near Tamil Nadu's Karur district has gone completely dry in the last one year due to monsoon failure. The rapidly depleting groundwater forced her to abandon agriculture and Vellamal, left high and dry, signed up to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Now, the scheme feeds her entire family. As Deccan Herald toured...

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Saving for rainy days -Savvy Soumya Misra

-Down to Earth   People of West Bengal's Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis Subedan Bibi's mud hut is a few metres from the banks of the Bakchara river, a distributary of the Hugli in Sunderbans region of South 24 Parganas. When the river is in spate she and most others of Goyadham village move to the main market in the nearby block. "Floods and storms destroy...

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PDS doesn’t reach 20 lakh people in Valley-Mudasir Yaqoob

-GreaterKashmir.com     Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government is uanble to provide ration to around twenty lakh people in Valley as the foodgrains to Valley under Public Distribution System continue to be supplied as per the 2000 population census.  At a time when government is gloating over widening the reach of PDS, 40000 families in Valley are without ration cards, forcing them to buy rice in private at exorbitant rates. Various families among...

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