The Centre has given the states another 50 lakh tonnes of wheat and rice stocks, half of which will be sold to the poor at subsidised rates as food prices continue their steep climb. An empowered group of ministers (EGoM), headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, also decided to extend the ban on pulses exports and allow duty-free imports of pulses till March 2012. “In today’s EGoM meeting, it was decided to...
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Tribals starving in Mizoram, claims NGO
Over 4,000 Chakma tribal people in Mizoram have been starving for the past few weeks, a non-governmental organisation said Thursday. "Over 800 Chakma tribal families comprising over 4,000 men, women and children in four villages in Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC) areas of southern Mizoram have been starving for several weeks," New Delhi based Mizoram Chakma Development Forum (MCDF) said in a letter to the Mizoram government. MCDF president Hemanta Larma said:...
More »MNREGA fails to curb distress migration in parts of R'than
The government's flagship programme MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Emolyment Guarantee Act) has created a source of additional income for families living below the poverty line in tribal areas of Rajasthan but has failed to check distress migration as minimum 100 days of employment assured under the Act is not provided to all workers. Many villagers in Dungarpur, Udaipur and Rajsamand districts claim that the scheme is mostly attracting women and...
More »How the PDS is changing in Chattisgarh by Udit Misra
The Chhattisgarh model offers some key lessons on how to make the public distribution system deliverProbably the only thing extraordinary about Manglu is that he is the perfect example of an ordinary tribal. The 60-year-old belongs to the Pahadi Korba tribe and lives in Govindpur village of Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh. He best represents what modern India calls a below poverty line (BPL) beneficiary of various government schemes. Manglu earns...
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Chief minister Arjun Munda is keen to replicate the efficiency of the public distribution system (PDS) in Chhattisgarh under fellow BJP leader Raman Singh, to ensure better delivery of foodgrains for Jharkhand’s below poverty line (BPL) families. Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, Munda said food and civil supplies department principal secretary Rajbala Verma had recently visited Chhattisgarh to assess how the Raman Singh government had been smoothly doling out foodgrain to...
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