-The Indian Express Drought poses major setback to Swachh BhaRAT Abhiyan in Maharashtra. Pune: Ekurke was a success story that inspired many. In 2013, this village in Osmbanabad district’s Kalamb tehsil built 350 toilets in a short span of one-and-a-half months to end the shame of having to defecate in the open. The concerted efforts by the villagers led to the transformation of their village once “infamously dirty” into one where each...
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Centre asks states to scale up DBT scheme for food subsidy -Sandip Das
-The Financial Express In a bid to curb pilferage of foodgrains in the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), the Centre on Saturday asked the states to opt for Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under which the subsidy component is credited to bank accounts and allows the beneficiaries to buy foodgrains from the market. However, for implementing DBT, the states must complete digitisation of beneficiary list and seed bank account details for fund transfer....
More »Farmer Suicides in India: Trends across major states (1995-2011) -Deepankar Basu, Debarshi Das and Kartik Misra
-Economic and Political Weekly In an effort to understand the trends of farmer suicides, this article uses data from the National Crime Records Bureau to estimate the suicide mortality RATe of farmers and non-farmers for India and its states. The methodology used corrects for an error present in previous studies and alters some commonly held views about the level and trend of farmer suicides in India. Please click here to access. ...
More »Minority report: Muslim families shrinking fastest among Indian communities
-Hindustan Times Indian families are getting smaller and the decline is sharpest among Muslims, religious census data released on Friday said, in what could be signs of rising literacy levels in the community. The report of the census carried out in 2011 was released almost a year after the government revealed religion-wise population figures from the same year. The latest data said the country’s average family size in 2011 was 4.45 members, down...
More »Rajasthan's Phalodi sizzles at 51°C, highest ever tempeRATure in country -Ashish Mehta
-The Times of India JAIPUR: The severe heatwave conditions intensified in dry Rajasthan on Thursday with a majority of stations witnessing maximum tempeRATures above 46 degrees Celsius. Phalodi in Jodhpur recorded a maximum tempeRATure of 51 degrees Celsius - the highest tempeRATure recorded in the country since 1956, while the state capital of Jaipur had its hottest day in last 11 years with a maximum tempeRATure of 46.5 degrees Celsius. Alwar, so...
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