Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The NDHM has proposed to provide the technology platform for collection of core health data from the providers and patients The government has proposed mapping health data of citizens and building a National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) on the lines of the Aadhaar database, and set up ‘digital health’ as …
Says Cases Relate To Time When Aadhaar Wasn't Must The claims in a petition that food subsidy has been denied due to lack of Aadhaar linkage under a Delhi government-administered scheme was found to be incorrect as the cases relate to a time when UID was not made mandatory , …
‘Information scattered across hospitals needs to be assimilated’ The next big revelation in medicine may come from the known, and not from myriad mixtures in a Petri dish, believes big data proponent and Indian origin doctor Rahul Potluri. Dr. Potluri, whose work in the past suggested that being in a …
The government has decided to issue computerized health cards to 2.5 crore residents of the state and health data of every individual will be linked with unique identification issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India. "As and when the patient visits a health facility for a second time or …
In a move that could speed up the ambitious direct cash transfer programme, rural development minister Jaiarm Ramesh has suggested other entities such as state governments and banks should be roped in to enroll residents in the Aadhaar system. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ramesh said the …
New Delhi Consumers will have to pay the full market rate — R750 at current prices — for every LPG cylinder from April 2013 as the government gears up to directly transfer the subsidy on this fuel to consumers’ accounts starting next fiscal. LPG users will get the subsidy on …
Diesel Prices: Prices of diesel, LPG and kerosene may be raised from Tuesday when the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) meets. Though the listed agenda for the CCPA meeting is to discuss the BJP boycott of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, sources said the Petroleum Ministry’s comprehensive proposal on …
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will take up the implementation of the innovative direct transfer of subsidy scheme on a pilot basis in Mysore from the second week of this month. The UIDAI has informed all banks that it will start crediting the subsidy amount to the beneficiaries’ …
New Delhi In a major boost to the Centre’s efforts to target subsidies to the neediest, 11 states have already signed up to the plan to transfer cash directly to the chosen beneficiaries to disburse kerosene subsidy. The scheme aims to plug leakages in the public distribution system. The 2012-13 …
AGARTALA: Union minister Jairam Ramesh has said 'Aadhaar' numbers, the unique 12-digit identification numbers given to residents of India, would be used to provide different social pensions, MGNREGA wages to workers and scholarships to students. "The Aadhaar-enabled applications would be utilised immediately in some selected 50 districts of the country, …
Of the 50 districts in the country where Aadhaar will be implemented, five are from Maharashtra. Though enrolments are currently voluntary, once Aadhaar comes into force, it will be mandatory to quote the number while drawing salaries in government jobs and investing in government schemes and while making electronic payments. …
In a major shift in policy, the Centre now plans to confine food entitlement only to below poverty Line (BPL) households and completely exclude the existing category of the above poverty line families. This is one of the significant changes proposed in the National Food Security Bill which is currently …
The Planning Commission on Thursday approved Tripura’s Plan outlay of Rs 2,250 crore for 2012-13, which is 15.38 per cent higher than the allocation for this fiscal. “The annual Plan size of Rs 2,250 crore for the year 2012-13 for Tripura was finalised here at a meeting between Deputy Chairman, …
New Delhi Officials of the food, agriculture and finance ministries will meet the state and central ministers concerned in a bid to thrash out objections raised by the states over the proposed Food Security Bill. The two-day conference that begins on Wednesday will also take up the creation of additional …
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia may be okay with a little overlap between the National Population Register exercise and UIDAI's aadhar project, but an earlier note prepared by the Plan Panel had pegged the cost of this duplication at Rs 15,000 crore. Based on the premise that increased …
To overcome the delay in payment of wages to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers in Jharkhand, allegedly owing to administrative apathy, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has piloted a project in Jharkhand. Under the project, online authentication and Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) …
UIDAI chairman-led panel report suggests creation of Public Distribution System Network by April 2012 Apanel headed by Unique ID Authority chairman Nandan Nilekani has suggested computerisation of public distribution system (PDS) and use of cash transfers and coupons to streamline subsidy distribution. “The large focus of the report is to …
Bid to add social content to UID scheme, otherwise in limbo With the AADHAR scheme apparently in limbo, the Centre is making a desperate effort to provide it social content. As of now, only 3.5 crore unique identification cards have been issued as against an enrolment of 10 crore people …
State has more names in ration cards than its population as detailed in Census 2011; 29 per cent already enrolled for Aadhaar Is it under-registering of its residents in Census 2011, the migrant population or fake ration cards? Having already enrolled 29 per cent of its population under Aadhaar - …
The government is planning to cap sale of subsidised cooking gas (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinders to each household in a phased manner, while putting in a mechanism for direct transfer of subsidy to the intended beneficiaries. Consumers will have to buy cylinders above the specified quota at the market price. …
