-Tehelka.com Learning from the recent starvation deaths in Jharkhand, the nation’s leaders must pay heed to the necessity of ensuring food security for all Food and hunger have been important issues this past month and the news has not been welcome. First it was India’s dismal rank in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017 released by the International Policy Research Institute rankings — 100th among 119 countries. GHI looks at undernourishment, child...
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With just 272 buses per million people, how can odd-even rule in Delhi be successful?
-Down to Earth The city is already short of about 5,000 public buses to cover all its 865 routes The odd-even road rationing scheme is back in Delhi. According to latest reports, this scheme will be enforced from November 13-17, which MEAns cars with license plates ending in odd and even numbers will be allowed to ply on alternate days. As the city gasped for breath due to worsening smog, the Supreme court-appointed...
More »HC questions Centre on disabled's Aadhaar woes
-The Times of India KOLKATA: The pleas of a mother of a 27-year-old with cerebral palsy, who failed to get Aadhaar-registered despite three attempts because of his physical disability, prompted the Calcutta high court on Thursday to ask the central government one simple question: why were people, including those with serious disability, being forced to knock on the judiciary's doors to get themselves on the Aadhaar platform? Sanat Maitra has 83 per...
More »Egg glitch comes in Mid Day MEAls -Santosh Narayan
-The Pioneer Ranchi: The State Government, working hard to introduce centralised kitchens to cook nutritious Mid-Day MEAls (MDM) for school children, has found eggs not so palatable. ISKCON and Akshay Petra, the two premier organisations, which came forward to run the mega kitchens in different parts of the State, have flagged their reservations about cooking eggs in their kitchens. Confirming the development, Sanjay Tike, looking after MDM related activities of ISKCON in the...
More »Poor south west monsoon rainfall sours hope for good foodgrain output
The phenomenal growth in foodgrain production witnessed in the 2016-17 crop year will not repeat this year. Early prediction by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare shows that the kharif foodgrain production in 2017-18 may likely to fall by 2.8 percent as compared that in the previous year. The kharif foodgrain production is expected to decline from 138.5 million tonnes in 2016-17 to 134.7 million tonnes in 2017-18. Readers...
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