-The India Express For the health, dignity and safety of women in slums, a comprehensive policy for the maintenance and construction of public toilets is needed. Living in a slum in Bandra West close to the railway station, Vijaya wakes up every morning to anxiety over the trek she and her daughter must take into the open, carrying water cans, to answer nature’s call. They could use the community toilet nearby, but...
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Why Bundelkhand is on the verge of the worst-ever famine -Shubhendu Parth
-GovernanceNow.com Blame it on misplaced policies and priorities The sun had just set in this village of Tikamgarh district in Madhya Pradesh. The sudden Darkness engulfed us as our car was about to hit the well-carpeted single-lane road at the end of a nearly 2.5 km dirt track. Our vehicle came to a screeching halt. As the dust began to settle, 10, 50, 60… over 100 faces emerged in the yellow...
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-The Times of India New Delhi: Zainab, Sana, Sumaila, Saima, Saina and Alisha, if not attending tuition classes, while away the day in the narrow bylanes of Hazrat Khwaja Peer Dard Colony, a stone's throw from their school, Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya on Turkman Road in Delhi. The children may be happy that they don't have to go to school, but their parents worry that the kids are missing out on nutritious...
More »Why the crisis in agriculture? -N Venugopal Rao
-TheHansIndia.com Agriculture is intertwined with soil, plant and human beings. In shaping the research, how much attention was paid to these three components? There is a need to reassess or evaluate the institute, whether it has retained the virtues of the pioneers who started it Improvements in farming could be traced in certain regions of the world, where agriculture has become prime occupation of life. Hence, the struggle and labours of few...
More »Modi government plans to make all public services available on mobile phones -Aman Sharma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Modi administration wants to make all government services available on mobile phones in the next five years so that citizens don't have to visit offices, making it much easier for them to get their work done efficiently and conveniently. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DarPG), which reports to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), proposed this last week in a report prepared along...
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