-The Times of India UPA's flagship rural guarantee scheme is performing fitfully in terms of work days, wages and coverage, amply confirming rural development minister Jairam Ramesh's fears that the programme has become a scheme for digging ditches. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee, UPA's outreach to the poor, is not meeting critical parameters and is crying out for reform with questions about the utility a Rs 36,000-crore a year budget...
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-The Indian Express Understanding the many buried stories in India’s suicide statistics A study in the British journal Lancet has found that suicide is now reaching alarming levels in India, and educated young people are particularly at risk. Suicide is all set to overtake maternal deaths as the leading cause of death among young women, and rivals road accidents as a cause of death among young men. Suicide is not a matter of...
More »Maize should not be included in PDS-Tejinder Narang
The proposed National Food Security Bill (NFSB), under consideration of Standing Committee of Parliament, may be reviewed for procurement and distribution of maize or corn (under coarse grains scheme) at Rs 1 per kg to intended beneficiaries. Without going into the merits and demerits of ever-increasing subsidies under NFSB, corn for human consumption is highly vulnerable to impermissible LIMits of fungal toxicity — called “aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, G2)”. There are...
More »No PAN needed for people outside income tax bracket: Karnataka High Court-M Padmakshan
People with income below taxable LIMit need not furnish Permanent Account Number (PAN), the Karnataka High Court ruled. The High Court order came as a relief to thousands of individuals who are asked to provide PAN despite having income below the taxable LIMit. Section 206 AA of the Income-Tax Act, which became effective from assessment year 2010-11, makes it mandatory for every person to furnish PAN in their transactions with...
More »6.6 m. tonnes of wheat under open sky faces rain fury, admits Centre-Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu Food Ministry wants to LIMit grain procurement to the needs of PDS More than 6.6 million tonnes of wheat meant for the public distribution system, is lying in the open, running the risk of damage from rain, Minister of State for Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas admitted here on Thursday. The government’s priority was to evacuate the wheat, he said. Faced with a problem of plenty, the Food Ministry wants to...
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