Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
Environmental degradation costs India about Rs 8 crore, equivalent to 5.7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), on an annual basis according to a World Bank report released on Wednesday. The report, Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges in India, focuses on particle pollution from the burning …
The Act guarantees free nutritious meals or take-home rations in anganwadis, schools and other institutions Chhattisgarh government had amended its Food Security Act 2012 to add 'nutrition' as it had been providing nutritious items to the beneficiaries under the scheme. State's food minister Punnulal Mohile on Tuesday tabled the amendment …
About 23 per cent of child mortality in the country is caused by environmental degradation and diseases caused by poor water supply, sanitation and hygiene, a World Bank study has found. The World Bank report, titled "Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges in India", also states that environmental degradation costs …
The state government has notified a policy for the grant of licences for group housing colonies in high-density zones. An official spokesman of the Town and Country Planning Department said here today, high-density residential zones had 1,000 persons per hectare (PPH) or more. He clarified that the policy dated December …
Taking a cue from global trends, India is beginning to turn its attention towards adolescent health, with the government in the process of finalising a National Policy on Adolescent Health. The theme of this year’s World Population Day (July 11) also centres around the wellbeing of adolescent girls, with data …
On World Population Day, Numbers Paint Grim Picture It sounds like an old wives’ tale. Number of births had peaked during the two winter months of October and November in the year 2012, according to an annual statistical analysis of live births across Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara by the …
The Congress government in Karnataka today launched its ambitious scheme of supplying rice to nearly one crore poor families across the state at Re 1 a kg. The scheme will entail an additional expenditure of around Rs 4,200 crore a year. The Opposition parties have termed the move as an …
Says it doesn’t want a Uttarakhand-like tragedy in J&K; Observing that it does not want a “situation parallel to Uttarakhand” in Jammu and Kashmir, in which so many lives have been lost, the J&K; High Court has asked the state government to act swiftly against the conversion of agricultural land …
With the Delhi Government vying to be the first to launch a food security scheme next month, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday issued directions to the department and agencies concerned to make all necessary preparations. The scheme is set to launch in the Capital on August 20 to coincide …
The state will launch food security on August 20, birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi celebrated as Sadbhawna Diwas The Delhi government has become the first in India to announce it would launch the food security programme, as cleared by the Union Cabinet in the form of an …
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday signed the ordinance on the National Food Security Bill, which paves the way for the implementation of the proposed legislation that envisages providing 5 kg of highly subsidised foodgrains to 67% of the population. The president gave his nod to the ordinance, which was received …
The petition, filed by advocate M L Sharma, said the Article 123 of the Constitution that deals with the power of the President to promulgate ordinances during the recess of Parliament has been misused as there was no "emergency" situation A PIL was today filed in the Supreme Court seeking …
Pune: In trying to determine why a small percentage of people contract severe forms of dengue fever, the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) has found that a combination of certain genes in the human body may be associated with the complications arising from the disease. The NIV research can …
Cabinet unanimously approves scheme's rollout for 67% of population The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, in a year that will see six states going to polls, has chosen the ordinance route to launch its ambitious food security programme for almost two-thirds of the country’s population. The Cabinet, which had last …
Setting aside all opposition, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to promulgate an ordinance on the National Food Security Bill that seeks to give legal rights to 67 per cent of the population over subsidised grains every month. The beneficiaries will be identified by the States, which will …
GOADED by its perceived potential as a vote-winner, the UPA government on Wednesday chose to promulgate an ordinance to give effect to the Food Security Bill, which would give 67% the population the right to 5 kg of grain every month at highly subsidised rates of R1-3 per kg. The …
Preparing for the 2014 General Elections, the Congress-led UPA today decided to take the ordinance route to provide India’s two-third population the right to food at subsidised rates. Opposition parties, primarily the BJP and the Left, wanted National Food Security Bill, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s pet project, to be discussed …
Seen as a potential vote-catcher for Cong-led coalition The government is all set to promulgate an ordinance to empower citizens with the right to food, after it failed to pass the proposed legislation during the budget session of Parliament. Seen as a potential vote-catcher for the Congress-led ruling coalition in …
However, some believe this will only push the annual food subsidy higher To operationalize the government’s ambitious National Food Security Law, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has embarked on a massive recruitment drive. Officials said by the end of 2013-14 financial year, the Corporation will have 11,000 new staff …
The broad objective of the Regional Plan-2021 "for promoting growth and balanced development of the Region” is to be achieved by: Providing suitable economic base for future growth by identification and development of regional settlements capable of absorbing the economic development impulse of NCT-Delhi; Providing efficient and economic rail and …
