Category Archives: Governance
Unravelling the food mess
Author(s): Latha Jishnu, Ravleen Kaur, Aparna Pallavi, Ashutosh Mishra, Kumar Sambhav Down to earth, Issue: Oct 15, 2010 Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in a shambles in most parts of the country with the poor unable to get their quota […]
A question of political will
Down to earth Oct 15, 2010 Today, Chhattisgarh buys most of its food requirement from local farmers. Using the minimum support price scheme of the Centre, it procures three million tonnes of paddy in the kharif season, benefitting about one million farmer families of the impoverished state. Part of this procurement is given to the […]
To store and to have not
Down to earth Oct 15, 2010 Since May the media has been beaming images of foodgrain rotting in various parts of the country. FCI’s investigation revealed that grain costing nearly Rs 50 lakh was damaged at Harduaganj, Orai and Hapur in Uttar Pradesh. “We have to procure all the grain that farmers bring to us […]
A Thought For Food
Given the scale of UPA-II’s proposed food security programme, getting the recipe right was never going to be easy. But even accounting for their differences, the National Advisory Council (NAC) and the government are having more problems than expected pushing the right to food legislation.
UID: High Possibility of Misuse
IN elaborate charade has begun with the rolling out of the first Aadhaar unique identity (UID) num bers by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh and the Congress chairperson, Ms Sonia Gandhi in a tribal district of Maharashtra. The 12-digit number for each citizen is supposed to achieve pilferage-free delivery of services to the underprivileged.
A Social Front Against Maoists
BY TARUN DUTTA IN the tribal belts where Maoists are fighting security forces, Adivasis who were animists have embraced Christianity. This trend stretches across all the states where Naxalites have established their “independent zones”.
Divide between the rich and the poor has increased: Brinda Karat
Criticizing the Congress led UPA government’s economic policies, CPM politburo member Brinda Karat has said that poor people in the country have become poorer while the rich have become richer.
Mobilising The Other India
Sudipto Mundle India has done well from globalisation. No historic transformation can occur with only gains and no losses, on which more below. But, on net reckoning India, like many other developing countries, has gained. Despite the dire predictions of radical theories of imperialism, the old Ricardian theory of comparative advantage has asserted itself, albeit […]
Project proposals worth Rs 96 cr forwarded to Centre
The state level steering committee for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission has forwarded proposals worth Rs 96 crore to the Centre, for a number of major projects to be undertaken in and around the city.
Law soon to regulate real estate in Goa
It is a well-known fact in Goa that the real estate sector was the most unregulated sector but the state would soon have a law to regulate the relationships between the builders and promoters of flats, housing societies and the purchasers of flats, tenements, apartments, etc as the State Law Commission stepped in and prepared […]