-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: The national lockdown is proving to be a nightmare for nearly 36 lakh truck drivers across the country. “Out of 75 lakh commercial vehicles in the country, over 20 per cent are stuck on the roads across the country and drivers are in need of urgent support,” Janakiram Reddy, Vice-Chairman, All India Motor Transport Congress Toll Committee, told BusinessLine on Friday. The 21-day national lockdown announced by...
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In an open letter to the PM, civil society activists have asked for ensuring food security and other rights-based entitlements of the poor and informal workers in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak
-Open Letter from the Right to Food Campaign to the Prime Minister of India dated 19th March, 2020 The Right to Food Campaign on 19 March, 2020 has issued an open letter to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. In its letter to the PM, civil society activists have asked the government for ensuring food security and other rights-based entitlements for the poor, vulnerable and the informal sector workers in the wake...
More »Why Odisha's nutrition budget, the first in India, is a cut above the rest -Anupam SRIvastava
-Down to Earth Odisha supports its nutrition agenda through agricultural policies, the public distribution system among others Odisha has become the first Indian state to draw up a nutrition budget in the country. The idea of a thematic budget for nutrition is a unique one in India where an inter-departmental approach is followed. Key participants in this approach include anganwadi centres, schools and health institutions. Additionally, Odisha supports its nutrition agenda through agricultural...
More »NSO will not release report showing first decline in consumer expenditure in 40 years -Somesh Jha
-TheWire.in Consumer spending surveys help set the base year for key macroeconomic data, including gross domestic product. New Delhi: More than a month after National Statistical Commission (NSC) chairman Bimal Kumar Roy said the official survey report showing a dip in consumer spending for the first time in over four decades would be made public, the autonomous data body decided against releasing the report. When asked why the NSC departed from its earlier...
More »How to reduce NRC's administrative burdens -SRInivas Yerramsetti
-The Hindu Citizens should not be asked to provide the same information more than once to government agencies In June 2014, the Modi government set out to change how the government worked. At that time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in a meeting of Union Secretaries about “reforming the public service delivery system and bridging the governance deficit” by introducing “self-certification” in place of “affidavits”. That event revealed his enthusiasm and commitment...
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