-The Hindu Poll panel to act after report from expert panel. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Sunday said the committee of experts from the Indian Statistical Institute, constituted to determine a feasible threshold for counting of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips, would submit its report before the conclusion of the Lok Sabha election process. In February, leaders of Opposition parties had approached the Election Commission (EC) expressing concerns over the...
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Rural distress deepens: Wage growth dips, non-farm jobs hit -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express The last five years, in other words, have seen a slowdown in rural wages even after adjusting for inflation, which has been far lower than during the UPA regime. Rural wages have grown 3.8 per cent year-on-year in December, the lowest ever for this month. Together with depressed farm prices — annual wholesale inflation in December was minus 0.07 per cent for “food” and 4.45 per cent for...
More »How India's anganwadi system is getting some things very right despite its many flaws -Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta
-The Hindu ICDS is the world’s biggest mother and child nutrition and care programme It is an early spring morning. We are walking deep inside hilly country in Karnataka’s Malnad region. When the monsoon comes, rainfall will be intense in these parts, and will continue for many months. This is coffee terrain. With the great tall trees above us, and the plantation ahead of us, we have been walking on this narrow path...
More »In Rajasthan, 10 lakh farmers identified for loans in next crop cycle -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu The farm loans will be disbursed in two stages during the next crop cycle of kharif season from April 1 to August 31 and rabi season from September 1 to March 31 Jaipur: The Congress government in Rajasthan has identified a whopping 10 lakh farmers for grant of loans through cooperative banks during the next crop cycle, amid allegations by the Opposition BJP that its "populist measure" of farm-loan waiver...
More »Supreme Court strikes down Rs 6,300-cr food contracts -Sandeep A Ashar
-The Indian Express Pankaja Munde’s ministry accused of tweaking tender norms to favour big players and industrialists. Mumbai: IN FRESH trouble for the Devendra Fadnavis government, the Supreme Court (SC) has struck down tenders worth Rs 6,300 crore issued in 2016 by the Maharashtra women and child development department for supplying Take Home Ration (THR) as supplementary nutrition at daycare centres or anganwadis in the state. A bench comprising Justice Arun Mishra...
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