Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Mahesh Vyas / New Delhi May 24, 2010, 0:42 IST Against the official savings level of 35 per cent, CMIE survey estimates this to be 40 per cent. The official statistical machinery of India does not make an estimate of the income of households. And there are no plans to …
37 per cent of the expenditure was on food items and 63 per cent on non-food items NEW DELHI: The monthly per capita expenditure in the urban areas of Delhi is the highest in the country, reveals a report on
The current state of rural banking in the country is poor. A recent report, by the National Sample Survey Organization, revealed that 51.4 per cent of the 89.3 million total farmer households in the country had no access to credit; 27 per cent of the households were indebted to formal …
IT is not surprising that questions of food security and the right to food have become such urgent political issues in India today. The rapid growth of aggregate income over the past two decades has not addressed the basic issue of ensuring the food security of the population. Instead, nutrition …
The issue of poverty estimation seems to be getting more complicated as a government-sponsored panel has now said that about 38 per cent Indians are poor
Farmers need greater access to credit and risk-hedging tools Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 14, 2009, 0:58 IST Farmers won't invest unless they earn more - and that requires greater access to credit and risk-hedging tools. The Economic Survey 2008-09 points out that the agriculture sector, which clocked an …
The gale of chatter during the current global meltdown has been mainly about the hardships in store for the corporate sector and middle classes. The voice of the poor is too feeble to have been heard in the din. But the release last week of the latest per capita expenditure …
Business Standard / New Delhi October 17, 2008, 0:31 IST The non-clearance of insurance claims can render any risk mitigation product worthless. It is worse when the victims are hapless farmers who, having lost their crops, are deprived of compensation despite having insurance cover under the government-supported National Agricultural Insurance …
BHUBANESWAR: After industrial boom, Western Orissa is all set to experience another revolution. Aquaculture, which has earlier been the mainstay of the coastal and central districts, is going to transform livelihood options of the poor and marginal sections in the interior pockets. Thanks to the efforts of Western Orissa Rural …
Of the reported 25 lakh homes worldwide that use solar home systems today, about" 3.6 lakh are in India, second only to China which has four lakh solar home system users. The market for solar photo voltaics (PV) continues to find its relevance in such decentralized off-grid applications because despite …
In striving for "efficiency' by means of narrow targeting, households that should be entitled to basic food security through the PDS have been left out. During periods of high inflation in food prices, governments must provide a basic minimum quantity of food grain and other food items at low prices …
