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News ScanGovt to increase storage capacity to curb grain wastage
A team of technical experts from China will be invited to interact with Indian officials on how to improve the country’s warehousing facilities and deal with the problem of rotting grain More... World leaders seek new ways to reach MDGsWorld leaders are kicking off a summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York to hammer out new ways to meet ambitious targets set a decade ago to cut poverty, millions of avoidable deaths and improve equality, by 2015 More... UN says 925 million people undernourishedFor the first time in 15 years, the number of hungry people in the world has declined. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that 925 million people are undernourished -- a significant improvement from the 1.023 billion hungry the organisation counted in 2009 More... India to tell London to stop aid next AprilIndia’s external affairs ministry has instructed the finance ministry to inform London that India will not accept further aid from the Department for International Development from next April. DFID is a UK government agency that manages Britain’s aid to poor countries to help alleviate poverty More... Govt gives free phones to poor instead of grainOver 1,000 below the poverty line (BPL) card holders in Rajasthan got free cell phones instead of free foodgrain as ordered by the Supreme Court. The government felt it was more important to distribute cell phones to the poor in Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot’s constituency of Ajmer More... After fortified salt, fortified midday meals to fight malnutritionAs the government struggles to incorporate nutritional aspects into its proposed right to food legislation, industry has offered to engage with the government as a partner More... ‘Free distribution of foodgrain an order, not suggestion’: SCThe Supreme Court reminds Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar that its recent ruling that rotting foodgrain be distributed free among the poor was an ‘order’, not a ‘suggestion’ as interpreted by the minister More... Working group pitches for MNREGS wage raiseThe Working Group on Wages, constituted under the auspices of the Central Employment Guarantee Council that governs the functioning of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, in a report, has expressed concern over what it described as a crisis of wage policy, and has suggested a hike More... Plans to end corruption in NREGS with ‘Aadhaar’To combat corruption, the Indian government has decided to go in for the unique identification or ‘Aadhaar’ format to plug loopholes both at the worksite as well as at the time of disbursement of money More... |
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