-Feministsindia.com Sharmila Rege, an extremely popular teacher and warm fellow traveler in the women's studies movement, will always be with us through her writings on caste, gender and feminism and compassion she has shown for activists and researchers I was shocked and saddened to learn about the untimely death of Sharmila Rege, on 13 July, 2013, due to cancer of colon, at the young age of 48. Prof. Sharmila Rege was an...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 792
Malnutrition related death toll in Attapadi touches 54 -Laxmi Ajai Prasanna
-The Times of India THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the death toll touches 54 in Attapadi, a tribal hamlet in Palakkad, with one more infant succumbing to malnutrition on Saturday, advisor to the Prime Minister, TKA Nair, along with Kudumbasree officials who are on a two-day visit to Attappadi are set to issue a set of recommendations to revive the area. "There is no dearth of funds, yet the condition of the women and children...
More »Development and Adivasi rights - Ramesh Gopalakrishnan
-Live Mint For the first time, tribal communities in India will have a say in implementation of projects that affect them In the last six months, two key milestones have been reached in India around the protection of Adivasi rights. The first milestone was a ruling by Supreme Court in April which gave Adivasi communities in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa the final say on plans by a subsidiary of Vedanta...
More »Chhattisgarh: The trendsetter-R Krishna Das
-The Business Standard Chhattisgarh Food Security Bill was passed on Dec 21, 2012. Under the Act, about 90% of the state's population will have PDS entitlements Raipur: In December 2007, when Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh announced no one would die of starvation, not many realised the state was going to create history. The announcement came from the sleepy village of Sonakhan in Mahasamund district, where in 1856, the landlord of the area,...
More »Phulwari scheme to combat malnutrition in kids
-The Times of India RAIPUR: Taking another measure towards eradication of malnutrition, a Phulwari scheme has been launched for children between age group 6 months and 3 years. It has been launched with an objective to keep children healthy by providing them nutrition. In initial phase, the scheme will be implemented in 85 tribal blocks of 19 districts in the state, where 2,850 Phulwari centers will be operated. Besides pregnant women and...
More »
