-The Hindu Reply to RTI appeal points to massive corruption in railways food procurement Mumbai: A recent application filed as a second appeal under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by an activist has revealed that the Central Railway's catering department purchased certain food items to stock their warehouses at several times the maximum retail price. After railway authorities failed to share information on purchase of food items sought in his RTI application,...
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From plate to plough: Development with cow -Ashok Gulati & Smriti Verma
-The Indian Express Agricultural growth in Uttar Pradesh can be achieved by putting dairy in the lead role. State’s new chief minister has his task cut out for him Yogi Adityanath’s taking over as Uttar Pradesh chief minister has been criticised by several political pundits who say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has picked “cow over development”. They may soon have to bite the dust, like the economic pundits, who had...
More »Delhi police image makeover: Women cops to hear complaints at police stations -Rajshekhar Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A pleasant surprise awaits you the next time you visit a city police station with a complaint. Instead of a grumpy, disinterested policeman, you are likely to have a smart young woman to hear you out and direct you on how to go about registering a complaint. In an image makeover bid, police commissioner Amulya Patnaik has appointed women public facilitation officers who would be the...
More »Hunger and hard facts -TK Rajalakshmi
-Frontline.in In the latest Global Hunger Index, India is bracketed in the category of countries where hunger levels are “serious”. But the policy responses on hunger and malnutrition in the country have been inadequate and faulty. In the second week of October, a few media reports in India highlighted significant data pertaining to global hunger. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) had released its Global Hunger Index (GHI), rating 118...
More »MP districts home to most malnourished, over-nourished kids -Neeraj Santoshi
-Hindustan Times BHOPAL: Shahdol and Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh have the highest percentage of over- and under-nourished children among 100 districts, according to an Annual Health Survey, which, experts said, needed further validation. With 31.3% over-nourished children under the age of five, Shahdol topped the Clinical, Anthropometric and Biochemical (CAB) survey 2014 done in 100 districts of nine states. The district-wise analysis of the CAB survey was released recently in the annual health...
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