The official line is simple. Since we cannot afford to feed all the hungry, there must only be as many hungry as we can afford to feed. There was irony in the timing of the petrol price decontrol order. The decision, which also covered major hikes in diesel and kerosene prices, and affects hundreds of millions of people, came even as Manmohan Singh advised world leaders in Toronto on the need...
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Efforts to boost maternal and child health falling short, UN report finds
An annual assessment report released today by the United Nations shows that while significant declines have been recorded by many countries in reducing maternal and child mortality, greater progress must be made to meet the global targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). First agreed at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, the eight MDGs set worldwide objectives for reducing extreme poverty and hunger, improving health and education,...
More »UN identifies strategies to accelerate development and poverty reduction
Development models that focus attention on the poor while expanding job opportunities, increased government spending on social services and aid flows from affluent nations are all successful strategies for alleviating global poverty, the United Nations says. Access to low carbon energy and mobilizing domestic capital by, for example, improving tax collection, are the other factors the UN Development Programme (UNDP) identifies in a new report as crucial factors for the...
More »Govt examining Kirori Lal Meena's complaint of Hunger Deaths: Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot today said the state government is examining complaint of Hunger Deaths in tribal area of Udaipur as claimed by Dausa MP Kirori Lal Meena. "Though there are no chance of Hunger Death following scheme like MGNREGA, but the state government is examining the matter and will seek details on the basis of Meena's complaint," Gehlot told reporters. "Necessary steps, if needed, will be taken after we receive...
More »India’s blank spaces by Samar Halarnkar
‘Beggar type.’ Like most of us, Smita Jacob had never come across that pithy official phrase before. It’s a classification in the records of the police of New Delhi, India’s richest city, used to describe a dead homeless person whose death is too insignificant to investigate. The police are as sensitive as you and I to the cripple on the pavement, the child at the car window. They mean no...
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