-IANS The representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture said that due to Diwali, the market was closed in Maharashtra due to which the supply of onion was affected for two-three days. NEW DELHI: The Central government has directed NAFED to continue supplying pulses and onions from the buffer stock in order to keep the PRIces under control, an official said. A meeting was held here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Avinash Kumar...
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PRIce of new lifesaving TB drug, Pretomanid, too high, says MSF -M Somasekhar
-The Hindu Business Line The drug was developed by the TB Alliance, funded by various governments and philanthropic sources Hyderabad: The slew of newer TB drugs that have hit the market recently promise to tackle the disease better, but the high PRIce can prove a dampener to realise the goal of taming the deadly disease on a war footing, feel experts, advocacy groups and medical organisations who are meeting this week in...
More »Where are the PDS beneficiaries? Rajasthan government is looking for answers -Rakesh Goswami
-Hindustan Times In last 12 months, 3 million people in Rajasthan haven’t turn up to claim ration from Fair PRIce Shops for two months in a row Jaipur: Rajasthan government is looking for answers. Its food department has begun an exercise to look for those people eligible for procuring food grains from fair PRIce shops (FPSs) but have not turned up for two consecutive months. In last 12 months, around three million people...
More »Strengthening MGNREGA for reviving the economy -Surajit Das
-Newsclick.in Even if the wage rates under MGNREGA are doubled and if jobs are provided for at least 100 days in a year as per the law, the extra expenditure would not exceed 1% of GDP. The growth rate is slowing down in India neither because of lower productivity of the labourers or that of the land, nor because of shortage of labour or productive capacity, but because of the lack of...
More »Kitchen gardens in schools can improve nutritional levels
-Hindustan Times A garden can provide a context to students for understanding seasonality and life cycles of food; it can provide an opportunity to work cooperatively on real tasks; students can learn about where food comes from; and they can observe all of the PRInciples of ecology in practice The Union human resource development (MHRD) ministry recently asked all schools (rural and urban) in the country to set up kitchen gardens. The...
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