-IndiaResists.com The ongoing debate between two stalwart economists, Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati, must be joined by those who understand contemporary realities and challenges in terms altogether different from those of mainstream economists. In a recent (July 27) article in Times of India, Bhagwati's co-author Arvind Panagariya characterizes the differences between the two in the following terms. Sen favours education and health measures as being the first steps to tackle poverty...
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Birth of a state: Who prospers, mother or daughter? -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Almost 57 years after it was carved out by merging Telugu-speaking areas and cutting out Marathi and Kannada speaking areas, Andhra Pradesh is now on the carving board again - the Telangana region will now be partitioned off into a new state, induced by a long-standing agitation, but delivered by the political expediency of the Congress. Whatever be the complex electoral implications of this, the real question is...
More »Dwindling taste for the scheme
-The Hindustan Times Nutrition and attendance, these are the two cornerstones in the drive for the universalisation of education. And it was precisely these two reasons that the scheme to provide mid-day meals (MDM) was launched in State-run schools. This way poor children would be encouraged to attend school regularly and second, they would receive adequate nutrition. But unfortunately, as two back-to-back incidents, the first in Bihar and the second in Rajasthan,...
More »Poor implementation of MGNREGA in Bihar: CAG
-PTI PATNA: MGNREGA has not gained momentum in Bihar as the percentage of household provided 100 days employment ranged from one to seven per cent during 2007-12, according to a CAG report submitted to the state assembly today. A performance audit on MGNREGA found that Bihar was deprived of grant of Rs 9684.24 crore during 2007-12 in the shape of central share due to less creation of mandays, sharp increase in demand...
More »Government pulled two thorns out of sand mafia's side in a week -Vandana Keelor
-The Times of India NOIDA: On July 25, three days before IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended, the mining officer assisting her in the drive against sand mafia was shunted out. The officer, Ashish Kumar, was transferred to Bulandshahr. While the Noida city magistrate has been handed over Nagpal's duties, the Gautam Budh Nagar district, much to the delight of the sand mafia, currently has no mining officer. According to sources,...
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