The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Persons having an annual income of more than Rs 6 lakh may not get subsidised cooking gas, if the suggestion of the Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas has its way. Currently, domestic LPG (14.2 kg) cylinder is being sold at Rs 395.35 in Delhi, almost Rs 247 lower …
Terming the draft Food Security Bill as a ‘farce', the National Advisory Council (NAC) member, Ms Aruna Roy, economist Prof Jean Dreze (ex-NAC), civil liberties activist, Dr Binayak Sen, and others have written an open letter to the Prime Minister. The former and present NAC members, along with civil society …
The Right to Food Campaign on Tuesday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set aside the government draft of the Food Security Bill which “minimises government's obligations, restricts people's entitlements and is devoid of any accountability”. Rejecting the government's draft Bill, the Campaign gave a national call for action. …
Not a comprehensive draft, says Medha Patkar The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the banner of SANGHARSH have decided …
Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C. Rangarajan, who was earlier not in favour of the inclusion of above poverty line families under the proposed Food Security Bill, on Monday said that they could be given legal entitlements with lesser quantity of foodgrains. “The general category can be given …
The Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan, Delhi is a network for about thirty organisations working on issues related to food security, especially through the Public Distribution System (PDS), in the State of Delhi. While there are many problems with the way the PDS is currently functioning in Delhi, in recent times, …
A brainstorming meeting on forthcoming Bills on land, food, seeds and pesticides was stunned into silence when two participating farmers hit out at the government for the manner in which they were being displaced from their fertile land to satisfy the needs of corporates. “The archaic Land Acquisition Bill is …
The Food Security Bill, approved by a group of ministers this month, has ignored malnutrition as a subject, surprising many observers in UN bodies. The reason given is a turf war among different central ministries. According to N C Saxena, a member of the National Advisory Council that has opposed …
A study on the Public Distribution System by a team led by National Advisory Council member and economist Jean Dreze found only 18 per cent of respondents in a survey, of 1,227 below-poverty line households over 106 villages in nine states, wanted cash in place of food under the system. …
New Delhi The final draft of the proposed food security Bill approved by the finance and food ministries has a provision for creation of a national food security commission for implementation of the mega scheme that aims at providing subsidised grains to close to two-third of the country
New Delhi In order to avoid imports of grain for implementing the proposed food security Bill in years when monsoon fails, the government will include a provision in the Bill to allow beneficiaries to get cash instead of grain. According to sources, the requirement of grain for the proposed food …
This National Food Security Bill, 2011 has been approved by Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council and sent to the government. It seeks legal food entitlements to 90 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban households. An Act to ensure public provisioning of food and related measures to enable assured …
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has released the key indicators of household consumer expenditure in India, generated from the data collected in its 66th round survey during July 2009 - June 2010. The NSS consumer expenditure survey aims at generating estimates of household monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) and …
This is a report from Office of the Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners on food-nutrition insecurity and starvation in 15 villages of Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh displaced due to the Sardar Sarovar Project. This report is on food-nutrition insecurity and starvation in 15 villages of Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh, …
JAIPUR: Preliminary findings of the Rozi Roti Abhiyan Rajasthan, which conducted a state-level survey to assess the PDS functioning, revealed that a majority of people are not satisfied with the quantity of supply. The survey shows that while the average demand of cereals in a family is 50 kg, only …
Rajasthan has announced concessions and tax relief to customers on diesel, domestic cooking gas and kerosene to comply with the recent Congress directive to the party-run governments in the States in the wake of the hike in the prices of petroleum products. The concessions, announced after a late night meeting …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, the percentage of men suffering from anaemia is 25 per cent, which is making adverse affect on their health and productivity, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition's (GAIN), South Asia head Rajan Sankar said here on Monday. According to the National Family Health Survey 3, around 21% men …
Minister assures steps to boost output at Bamini fertilizer plant THANJAVUR: Minister for Cooperation Sellur K.Raju has said Rs.277 crore will be disbursed as crop loans by cooperative banks in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts this year. Till June 25, Rs.22.49 crore has been disbursed, the Minister said, at a …
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Thursday with a list of demands, including an increase in the allocation of wheat and rice for the public distribution system (PDS). Mr. Chauhan said though there are an estimated 67 lakh Below Poverty Line (BPL) …
