A week after he lost his ailing son, and ten months after he worked on a village road project, Pitbasu Bhoi finally got the ten thousand rupees he had earned under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Program (MNREGA). "Of what use is the money now? I have just immersed my son's ashes. When I needed the money to save his life, I did not have it," says Bhoi. The...
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EC plan to raise turnout by Samanwaya Rautray
The Election Commission has started a sample Survey in five poll-bound states to get an idea of voter attitudes and clear misconceptions to ensure greater turnout at booths. The exercise, being conducted by state chief electoral officers, will be completed within the next three or four weeks before elections are notified in Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Commission official Akshay Rout said a similar Survey had been conducted in the...
More »70% can't afford sanitary napkins, reveals study by Kounteya Sinha
Only 12% of India's 355 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins (SNs). Over 88% of women resort to shocking alternatives like unsanitised cloth, ashes and husk sand. Incidents of Reproductive Tract Infection (RTI) is 70% more common among these women. Inadequate menstrual protection makes adolescent girls (age group 12-18 years) miss 5 days of school in a month (50 days a year). Around 23% of these girls actually drop out of school after...
More »60% state youth prefer govt jobs: study by Mathang Seshagiri
If you thought that globalization and privatization would reduce the glamour and clamour for government jobs, you couldn't be more wrong. The first-ever state-backed study on aspirations and expectations of youth in Karnataka suggest that at least 60% of 14-34 year-olds -- irrespective of their education, economic status and place of study - prefer a government job. Fuelling their aspiration for a government gaddi seems to be job security, which is...
More »NAC seeks inclusion of SCs/STs in ambit of food security law
National Advisory Council has asked the government to provide highest priority to the inclusion of SC/ST families among beneficiaries of the proposed food security legislation. The Sonia Gandhi-led council decided on Friday to write to the rural development ministry, urging it to include the socially vulnerable section in the 'priority group' in the BPL Survey to be conducted by the ministry. The council's draft legislation has recommended providing 35kg foodgrain...
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