-The Times of India Malnutrition kills more Indians than any specific disease. That’s hardly surprising since a weakened body is more prone to infections and responds less to medicine or treatment than a well-fed, healthy one. Widespread malnutrition has been termed a national shame and a top priority. Yet, the debate in governments is mostly about whether or not to give packaged food and whether deficiencies of vitamins and minerals should be...
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Development At Extreme Close Up -Sunil Bahri
-Outlook Jholawala Dreze’s ‘research for action’ gets close to the people at the end of public policy. These essays urge greater collaboration between activists and economists. SENSE AND SOLIDARITY: JHOLAWALA ECONOMICS FOR EVERYONEBY JEAN DREZE PERMANENT BLACK | PAGES: 354 | RS. 795 Manmohan Singh attracted much lampooning and ridicule during and after his ten-year-long tenure as PM for the nature of the relationship of his government with 10, Janpath. One of the...
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-The Indian Express The Niti Aayog's report, submitted before the United Nations, acknowledges that anti-poverty programmes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) helped weaker sections of the society. Vindicating the UPA government’s stand on pulling people out of poverty, India’s Voluntary National Review Report on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals to the United Nations has said that sustained growth of 8.3 per cent from 2004-05 to 2011-12,...
More »Developers in quandary as states not ready with Rera rules -Prabhakar Sinha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Real estate developers across the country are in a quandary as the Centre has stopped them from marketing ongoing projects yet to be registered with their respective state's real estate regulatory authority (Rera), and most state governments are neither ready with rules under the new Act, nor have they created the authorities. In a written clarification to the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), the Union...
More »States, Union Terrotories dilute RERA to favour realtors -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Union housing ministry may claim that implementation of the real estate regulation law, popularly called RERA, will usher in a new era for home buyers, but the rules put forward by states have diluted many provisions, keeping most of ongoing projects outside the ambit of the law that would come into effect from Monday. States such as Odisha and Bihar have notified rules that are...
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