-Hindustan Times On Monday, the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) held a meeting with stakeholders of these villages to discuss the policy provisions before it is notified. The Centre is in the process of finalising its Green Development Area (GDA) policy to allow planned development, INCluding the permission to construct farmhouses and educational institutions, and conduct commercial activities in 88 greenbelt areas and villages with a large number of farmhouses. The...

-ThePrint.in High exports driven by demand from China led to shortage in country, where broken rice is used to make ethanol & as cattle feed. Lower & delayed planting likely to hit production too. New Delhi: On 8 September, India, the world’s largest exporter of rice, announced export curbs to tame spiralling retail prices. The move was anticipated because lower and delayed planting, in the face of deficit rainfall, are estimated to...

-PTI/The Telegraph Quota is a deceitful and a backdoor attempt to destroy concept of reservation: Expert The Centre's decision to grant 10 per cent quota for the EWS category in admissions and jobs violates the basic structure of the Constitution on multiple counts INCluding that it breaches the 50 per cent cap on reservation, the Supreme Court was told on Tuesday. The quota for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) is a "deceitful and...

-The Hindu In four States, auditors’ wages delayed as funds from Centre are yet to arrive The Union Rural Development Ministry (MoRD) has told States that failure to carry out social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) will invite action, INCluding withholding of funds. However, it is the Centre that bears the administrative cost of these Social Audit Units, and inordinate delay in the release of funds...

-The Telegraph Sanjay Mohanty, professor of population health at International Institute of Population Sciences, says steady fall in total health spending in proportion to GDP is 'worrying' India’s per capita healthcare expenditure at constant prices has remained near-stagnant despite INCreases in government spending and decreases in household spending on healthcare over a six-year period, the latest national health accounts report has shown. India’s per capita total healthcare expenditure has changed little over that...