-DNA The food is not up to the mark either, the study conducted by Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives has found. Mumbai: Nearly 45,000 children in the 0-6 age group die of malnutrition every year in Maharashtra. As a preventive measure, the government spends Rs300 crore yearly to provide kids with "micronutrient-fortified, energy-dense" food under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). But the project is a waste of money...
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Water For The Leeward India -Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera
-Outlook As subsidies for the poor continue to be under attack, a ground-up report from 10-states shows how well welfare schemes have worked over the last 10 years. Ahead of Elections 2014, rights-based welfare schemes are under attack. To those who argue ‘Dolenomics' doesn't work, a survey of five schemes in 10 states shows that the Rs 1,68,478 crore annually the nation spends is making a real and tangible difference on...
More »India's developed states record high IMR -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: It is well known that quality of life greatly varies amongst different states within India. Some states have greater industrial or agricultural output, higher income levels, better educational and health indicators while others are still struggling with backwardness. But what is much less known is that within states too there are wide and astonishing variations. State level averages often hide huge and unconscionable disparity on...
More »Despite minor girl’s testimony, police sit on child sex racket case-Amruta Byatnal
-The Hindu Dhule (Maharashtra): A teenage girl's degrading journey from a small village in Nashik to a brothel here ended in February, but no concrete steps have been taken to ensure that such stories do not repeat. Activists alleged that while the brothel-owners and some of their accomplices were arrested, the police chose to ignore a sex racket involving minor girls that is flourishing in the State. Speaking exclusively to The Hindu...
More »GPS study finds forest land ‘wrongfully’ given to tribals-Vivek Deshpande
-The Indian Express Nagpur: A Maharashtra forest department study, based on GPS and satellite imagery, shows that "ineligible forest areas are being claimed and granted for land plots (pattas) under the Forest Rights Act." The FRA gives traditional forest dwellers the right over lands they had encroached for farming, subject to a cutoff of December 31, 2005. The implementing authority is the tribal affairs department, a sore point with the forest...
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