Economic Survey of Maharashtra 2017-18
The Economic Survey of Maharashtra is a concerted endeavor of Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department, which is prepared every year and the same is presented in the Budget Session
Public Distribution System (PDS)
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Andhra Pradesh Socio Economic Survey 2017-18
The Government of Andhra Pradesh publishes ‘Socio-Economic Survey’ report every year and places it in both Houses of the State Legislature along with the budget documents. The report is a unique volume
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Determinants of household’s modern cooking and lighting energy transition in rural India: exploring household’s activities and its interactions with other households
The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on unreliable, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food
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Andhra Pradesh gaining obesity capital of India tag
Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh appeared to be turning obese. After gaining the name as the ‘Capital for Diabetes’, it was now marching towards getting the obesity tag. Studies carried out by the ministry
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Pulses for nutrition in India: changing patterns from farm to fork
India, a country with high concentrations of poor and malnourished people, long promoted a cereal-centric diet composed of subsidized staple commodities such as rice and wheat to feed its population of
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Can social safety nets protect public health? The effect of India's workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia
Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide
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The 1.5 Billion people question: food, vouchers, or cash transfers?
Most of the people in low and middle-income countries covered by social protection receive assistance in the form of in-kind food. The origin of such support is rooted in countries’ historical pursuit
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No transparency in PDS, says study
60 per cent of ration shops routinely remain closed during working hours. New Delhi: A study on the status of the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Delhi has found that the
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Food Corporation of India
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said in an audit report on the Food Corporation of India (FCI) that more than 4.72 lakh tonnes of wheat valued at Rs700.30 crore got damaged in Punjab till
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Indian food and welfare schemes: scope for digitization towards cash transfers
The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance