-Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Delhi The report Regulating Urban Trees in India: Issues and Challenges by Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon (published in July, 2022), highlights the scope and functions of a dozen tree laws implemented in different states in India. The implementation of these laws has come to public focus in recent years due to the growing number of cases of large-scale tree felling in Indian cities. The government use of mechanisms...
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Hemant Soren claims credit for no starvation death -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph CM says Jharkhand government is focused on reaching out to last mile with welfare schemes Jamshedpur: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren reminded people of the starvation deaths during the erstwhile BJP-led government and patted his own government as nobody died of hunger even during the Covid lockdown. Addressing a gathering at Godda on Wednesday evening, Soren said the development works done during the “double engine” government (a term used by his...
More »Chhattisgarh should adopt effective, safe solutions to malnutrition and abandon rice fortification: Activists -Ejaz Kaiser
-The New Indian Express The state’s decision is intended to eradicate malnutrition and anaemia from these districts. Nearly, Rs 28.43 crore will be spent on the fortification of rice and Rs 11.6 crore on its distribution. RAIPUR: Activists of the Right to Food campaign (RTFC) and Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) have urged the Chhattisgarh government to abandon its rice fortification interventions and instead adopt effective, safe solutions to the...
More »Fortification of rice is not the correct solution to end malnutrition in Chhattisgarh, say fact-finding team members who visited the state
-Press release by by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj) and the Right To Food campaign (RTFC) dated June 20, 2022 Raipur/ New Delhi: Activists of Right to Food campaign (RTFC) and Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) urged the Chhattisgarh government to abandon its rice fortification interventions. They appealed to the state government that it should not get coerced into distributing fortified rice in the food schemes...
More »As Modi Celebrates Eight Years as PM, Three Economic Faultlines That Can't Be Ignored -Arun Kumar
-TheWire.in In the last three years, the Indian economy has been in crisis even if its organized sector has been doing well. Three years of Narendra Modi’s second stint as Prime Minister was celebrated by the Bharatiya Janata Party earlier this month. The self-congratulatory campaign, however, was spoiled quickly by a succession of events, all of which point to what has gone wrong during his tenure. First came the news that the economy...
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