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Issue Date: May 26, 2013
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Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
Pitfalls of a uniform food regime
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2012
AS SEVERE drought sweeps parts of India, Russia and the US, fanning fears of a repeat of the 2007-2008 food crisis, attention has shifted to local foodgrains, vegetables and shrinking food diversity.
Hunger games – it’s the real India show
Posted on: 15 May, 2012
The celluloid fantasy of a dystopian world is a reflection of our society
DRDA faces axe
Issue Date: May 15, 2012
The institution that administers Centre’s rural development programmes—the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)—may be wound up. A committee set up by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) last year to restructure this key institution has recommended abolition of DRDA. The committee finds that DRDA is in direct conflict with the Constitutional mandate for panchayats, which are increasingly being assigned the responsibility of implementing rural development programmes.
Half-way to autonomy
Issue Date: May 15, 2012
The tiny 16-house village of Kuppaner in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district is bustling with activity. A few days ago, its gram sabha started felling bamboo in areas where it has community forest rights (CFR). Kuppaner is among the 400 villages in the district that have been granted CFR under the Forest Rights Act.
Grains of doubt
Issue Date: May 15, 2012
UNION Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has rejected the food ministry’s suggestion that 25 per cent of wages under the rural employment guarantee programme be paid in foodgrains.
