The National Advisory Council's proposals on the Food Security Bill represent a bad deal for the poor. The struggle for an effective and equitable Food Security Bill (FSB) has received a setback with the disappointing proposals put forward by the National Advisory Council. There is a disturbing disjuncture between what is being claimed and the actual implications of the proposals. Indeed it may be said that the NAC proposals create new...
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Government committed to Food Security Act: Pranab Mukherjee
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said that the government is committed to enacting the Food Security Act and that the financial implications of this will be known only after the Planning Commission determines the number of families living below the poverty line. He told reporters here that the act had two aspects - one to ensure availability of food to all and another to provide to BPL (below poverty...
More »46 farmers' suicides in Orissa in two years
After being cornered by the Opposition political parties on several occasions for the past two years over the cases of recurring farmers' suicides in Orissa, the state government has finally come out with a report on the matter. According to the report released in the state legislative assembly by Damodar Rout, the minister for agriculture and cooperation, 46 farmers have committed suicide in 2009-10 and in 2010-11 so far due to...
More »Swaminathan urges scientists to work with farmers by Gargi Parsai
Noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan on Friday urged researchers to take the lead in forging strong relationships with farmers to help them improve their incomes and yield per hectare. “The green revolution was a farmers' revolution. It were the farmers who triggered the high yield programme [in wheat],” he said in his Foundation Day Lecture on `Agro Bio-diversity Management for Sustainable Food Security' at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)...
More »Soon, beating your child could land you in jail by Himanshi Dhawan
Parents who practice the dictum, 'spare the rod and spoil the child', had better watch out. The government is planning a legislation that will make meting out corporal punishment to a child an offence not just for educational Institutions and care givers, but also for parents, relatives, neighbours and friends. In other words, just like in the US, children in India will be able to take parents or relatives to...
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