School meals ensure nutrition for millions of vulnerable children across the world. Almost 370 million children worldwide are covered by school feeding programmes. While 100 million school children benefitted from the noon meal scheme in India prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries like Brazil (48 million), China (44 million), South Africa (9 million) and Nigeria (9 million) too run similar programmes for school children. However, an estimated 39 billion in-school...
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Don’t merge, wind up national institutes: Disability rights groups
-The Hindu They play a vital role in human resources development, they tell Centre A group of 100 disability rights organisations and activists wrote to Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawarchand Gehlot asking him not to go ahead with the proposed merger and closure of several institutes under the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD). They said the institutes and regional centres were set up by the government “in pursuit of...
More »Snakepedia: Kerala now has a mobile compendium of all facts on its snake varieties -Vishnu Varma
-The Indian Express The application is the result of years of painstaking Research and documentation by a diverse team of clinical doctors, scientists, photographers and wildlife enthusiasts settled in different corners of the globe on a purely voluntary basis. Kochi: Did you know that the Malabar Pit Viper, a venomous snake found in evergreen, semi-evergreen hill forests and plantations in Kerala, can appear in almost 15 different colour morphs — from greenish...
More »Uttarakhand flood: 2019 study warned Himalayan glaciers melting at alarming speed
-PTI/ The Hindu The 2019 study, spanning 40 years of satellite observations across India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, indicates that climate change is eating the Himalayas’ glaciers, the Researchers said. As a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday, leading to massive floods, a study published in 2019 had warned that Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast since the start of this century...
More »Govt aims to increase MSME contribution to 40% of GDP: Nitin Gadkari -Jahnavi Nidumolu
-Livemint.com * The Union minister said that industries in village and Khadi generate as much as Rs.88,000 crore on an annual basis * So that the rural poor are benefited, he said the government's aim is to increase the contribution of the MSME sector to 40% from 30%, stating that there are 6.5 crore units Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Road Transport & Highways, has suggested to...
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