-Down to Earth Farmers want drought to be declared; government dilly-dallies According to the second survey carried out by the Revenue Department of Maharashtra, more than 20,000 villages in the state have received less than 50 per cent agricultural yield this year. The state has a total of 43,722 villages. This means that close to half the state is in an agricultural crisis. An earlier survey had put this number at a mere...
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Getting them back to school
-The Hindu A survey commissioned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development simplistically records poverty and academic disinterest as major reasons for children dropping out of school. A survey commissioned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, in September shows that out of the estimated 20.41 crore children in the age group of 6-13 in India, an estimated 60.41 lakh (2.97 per cent) are out of school. This proportion of out-of-school children...
More »India denies ‘caste’ as factor of gender inequality -Meena Menon
-The Hindu This draws angry reaction from civil society organisations Bangkok: India on Tuesday changed the word caste to "social origin" in the draft Asian and Pacific ministerial declaration on advancing gender equality and women's empowerment at the conference under way here to review the goals of the Beijing platform for action 20 years later. The text will be finalised over the next two days after the Ministers from the region debate on...
More »Capital shame: Incest rapes on rise; fathers among offenders -Soibam Rocky Singh
-The Hindustan Timess New Delhi: Shocking figures submitted by the police to the Delhi high court have revealed that of the 1,704 cases of rape registered in the Capital in the first 10 months of this year, 215 were instances of incestuous rape. More disturbingly, in 43 of these cases it was the father who committed the crime and in 27 cases it was the brother. In one case the accused turn...
More »Experts Stress on Pro-nutrition Agriculture
-The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: Effective leveraging of agriculture is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security. This can be achieved by taking steps to ensure that technological intervention in farms is done with agreement of farmers. This was one of the key points made by a panel of experts at a forum on ‘Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) initiative in Koraput', conducted by MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) here on...
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