-The Times of India LONDON: Food wastage is monumental globally, with 30 and 50% of food produced in the world (1.2-2 billion tonnes) is wasted. British MPs on the International Development Committee placed the country's most exhaustive assessment of food security in parliament on Tuesday and has thrown up some seriously worrying findings. They fear that food wastage globally could be as high as 50%. Valuable resources of land, energy, fertiliser and water...
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Planning Commission approves plan size of Rs 2,000 crore for Nagaland
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission today approved plan size of Rs 2,000 crore for 2013-14 for Nagaland, down 13 per cent from a year ago. This was discussed here at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio. The commission had approved a plan size of Rs 2,300 crore in 2012-13. "We have agreed on a plan size of Rs 2,000 crore, which is...
More »Privatising the ICDS?-Jayati Ghosh
-Frontline The Central government's proposal to hand over the supply of supplementary nutrition to NGOs in the name of "community participation" is surely an invitation for private profiteering on the back of this supposedly public scheme. ENSURING safe and healthy conditions for the reproduction of the population is obviously the most fundamental requirement of any society. So the progress of a society can be determined (and indeed is routinely judged) by the...
More »No land for planting trees in Delhi: Forest department
-IANS NEW DELHI: With urbanisation and infrastructural development taking place rapidly in the national capital, the forest department has been struggling with land to plant trees, an official said Thursday. Speaking at a public lecture, 'Delhi's Dying Trees', city's chief conservator of forest AK Shukla said hundreds of trees have been felled in the last one decade to build roads, flyovers, Delhi Metro and other infrastructure in the city. "Trees are felled to...
More »UPA's 'Bharat smiling' feebly -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The UPA is strenuously denying that this campaign is its earthy version of the NDA's "India Shining" campaign, but few are buying the denials. Launched as a "multi-media" campaign to highlight its achievements in two successive terms at the Center, it has been christened by political observers are UPA's " Bharat Smiling" campaign. The spirit of the campaign, says the publicity material given out by the...
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