-Down to Earth The debt in rural households is higher, even though their total assets are lesser than urBan households A new survey by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) shows that rural households have higher debts than their urBan counterparts. At the same time, an urBan household owns more than double the asset than that of a rural household. A rural household, on an average, owned assets of Rs 10...
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NREGA Work but No Payment in UP’s Chitrakoot District -Bharat Dogra
-TheWire.in Chitrakoot (UP): In the drought-affected Basiniha village in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district, the situation is so bad that the villagers survive on a single roti a day. Despite this, Munni Devi was not eager to take up employment at a NREGA work site when an offer was recently made. There is a simple reason for Munni Devi’s reluctance – she has not yet received wages for the nearly 20 days of...
More »India pushes GM’s frontier again with mustard, but what’s inside it? -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times In Bollywood romcoms, mustard fields glowing iridescent yellow are an oft-used backdrop for romantic songs. Remember the iconic 1995 hit, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Mustard, as it were, is an onscreen metaphor for vigour and youthful passion. However, looked through a farm scientist’s lens, the traditional Indian mustard isn’t genetically very impressive. It is only half as robustly growing as its east European cousins. Low yields mean India has to...
More »Egg off mid-day meal menu -KM Dayashankar
-The Hindu KARIMNAGAR (Telengana): Thanks to the escalation of prices, the serving of nutritious egg in the mid-day meal scheme is becoming a distant dream in majority of the government schools in the district. Besides, with the steep increase of prices of pulses such as red gram and sky-rocketing prices of the vegetables due to the prevailing drought conditions, students of various government schools are unable to get the nutritious food promised...
More »Teen romance in line of child abuse law fire -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A 2012 law to protect children from sexual abuse is being used to target teen romance, a study of such cases in Delhi over the past three years suggests. The study by the National Law School, Bangalore, has shown that in 10 per cent of the cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, the accused was in a relationship with the victim. In another...
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