-Live Mint According to Unicef, India houses one-third of the stunted, wasted and malnourished children of the world Malnutrition is a persistent problem in India, though it is often confused with hunger. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about 18% of India's population was undernourished in 2012. Undernourishment is the main cause of children's deaths, and according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), India houses one-third of the stunted,...
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Green Revolution may not have been that revolutionary: Data -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India The Green Revolution is said to have revolutionised agriculture in India and helped the country achieve self-sufficiency in food production. However, government data shows more or less the same rate of growth of yields for various crops from 1951 to about 1990 suggesting that the 'revolution' might not have been as momentous as it is believed to be. In the India Rural Development Report 2012-13, released on...
More »Odisha, Bihar least developed, Gujarat less developed: Raghuram Rajan panel
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: A high-level panel has recommended new criteria for measuring the backwardness of states and proposed the devolution of funds to them through an index that identifies Odisha and Bihar as the least developed states and Goa as the most developed one. The committee had been set up by the government amid demands for "special category" status by Bihar and was headed by the then chief economic...
More »Bihar ranks 74th in global hunger index -Vithika Salomi
-The Times of India PATNA: Eighty-seven per cent of the rural population and 61% of urban residents in Bihar had calorie deficiency during 2009-10, as per reports of National Sample Survey Office. In fact, Bihar ranked 74th (alarming zone) in the global hunger index of 88 countries, according to a Survey of India State Hunger Index 2008. In the same survey, Jharkhand ranked 76th, Odisha 67th and UP 61st, all in...
More »Progress blow to Gujarat -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: An expert panel has ranked Gujarat 12th among states in development, its findings flying in the face of Narendra Modi's claims but winning endorsement from economists The Telegraph spoke to. The committee, headed by Raghuram Rajan who has since been appointed Reserve Bank governor, assessed states on the basis of 10 criteria, which included many human development indicators. Bengal came 16th. Economist and Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen, who...
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