-The Indian Express In Global Hunger Index report, India has the highest percentage of children who suffer from acute undernutrition. On other parameters, where India has improved, the pace has Been relatively slow. The latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) has ranked India a lowly 102 among the 117 countries it has mapped. In 2018, India was pegged at 103 but last year 119 countries were mapped. So while the rank is...
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Delhi traffic police to withdraw 1.5 lakh e-challans for overspeeding: Report
-IANS According to a Delhi traffic police officer, the Traffic Police had asked the PWD to change the signboard showing 60 km/hr as the speed limit, but they did not do it. Now the cameras along the Highway has Been set with 70 km/hr as the maximum speed, the police said. Delhi Traffic Police have decided to withdraw about one and a half lakh challans issued mostly to those who were...
More »Do RTI Commissioners have the Right to Information? -M Sridhar Acharyulu
-TheWire.in The RTI Convention begs the question: who will save the RTI? Ideally, the 14th convention on the RTI, on October 12, where Central and state commissioners were present, should have resolved against the amendment which reduces their collective independence. However, I am surprised that even non-bureaucrat commissioners also did not raise their voice against it. The least a convention of commissioners could have done was to ask for information on the...
More »Curbing black money: Printing of Rs 2,000 notes stopped, says RTI reply -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express According to the central bank’s RTI reply, 3,542.991 million notes of Rs 2,000 were printed during the financial year 2016-17. NEW DELHI: Have you Been wondering why the ATMs have Been barely dispensing Rs 2,000 notes for last few months? That’s because the printing of the high-value note has Been stopped, the Reserve Bank of India informed this newspaper in reply to an RTI query. The Bharatiya Reserve Bank...
More »An economics for the poor -Himanshu
-The Indian Express Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer introduced a paradigm shift in approach to alleviating poverty. The Nobel Prize in Economics for 2019 has Been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for “their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. The approach, popularly known as Randomised Control Trial (RCT), has Been the buzzword among development economists for almost two decades. Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer have used this technique (inspired...
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