-Economic and Political Weekly The usual explanations for the divergence between calorie intake and consumption expenditure in India ignore the enormous squeeze on Food budgets arising from dispossession (leading to loss of access to common property resources), rising migration (involving a loss of access to non-market Food items) and the forced turn to the private sector for social sector services that are more expensive than public sector provision. It is the...
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'Network of retail cooperatives may help tame Food inflation' -Siddharta & Surojit Gupta
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The government's key policymakers are drawing up plans to tackle the problem of stubborn Food prices and may rope in cooperative entities to set up standalone stores to sell vegetables and other Food products across the country. The race to tackle the inflation problem, identified as one of the factors for the rout of the Congress in the recent state elections, has gathered momentum in the run-up...
More »The great Indian sanitation crisis
-Live Mint The Indian state has done little to provide preventive public health services New data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) have once again underlined the abysmal state of sanitation in the country, particularly in rural India where two-thirds of the country lives. Only 32% of rural households have their own toilets, according to the recently released results of a large-scale survey conducted by NSSO in 2012. An additional...
More »Counting our chickens -Neelkanth
-The Indian Express Agricultural GDP is underestimated due to inaccurate non-cereal data. It started with a mundane question: what is the chicken population in India? There are glaring inconsistencies in the available data. The National Sample Survey Organisation's (NSSO's) surveys show a 20 per cent annual growth of chicken consumption between 2005 and 2010. But according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the production of chicken meat only rose 10 per...
More »Centre may pick up half the cost of transportation of targeted PDS grain-Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu In the case of north-eastern and hilly States, Centre should bear 90% of the cost, says panel The Centre may share with the States 50 per cent of the costs for distribution of the Foodgrains meant for the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) under the recently passed National Food Security Act (NFSA). An inter-State committee of secretaries chaired by Union Food Secretary Sudhir Kumar has recommended that the Central government pick...
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