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 …
Manmohan calls new report's findings a ‘national shame' A new study based on a survey of the height and weight of more than one lakh children across six States has found that as many as 42 per cent of under-fives are severely or moderately underweight and that 59 per cent …
Government to take states on board over food bill Still nursing the sting of ally Trinamool Congress opposing the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha citing issues of federal autonomy, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government wants to take the states into confidence on Sonia Gandhi's dream project - the …
Single-premium plan likely to be only for women initially; Centre, states to share premium for economically weaker sections. Customers may soon get health, insurance and pension covers, as well as a scholarship for their daughter’s school education under one policy. The single-premium policy, which the finance ministry is considering, is …
The Water Board supplies 340 million gallons of water every day in the city, but is collecting bills for only 220 MGD. It does not have an account of 120 MGD of water it is supplying daily in the city. As a result, the Board is getting revenue of only …
DPRs of 40% areas in border blocks to be submitted by March end With projects of all the habitations having 500 and above population have already been submitted to the Union Rural Development Ministry, the State Government has now shifted the focus on the areas having 250 and above population …
KOCHI: The National Food Security Bill will be presented in the Budget session of Parliament, said Union Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs K V Thomas. At a press conference in Kochi on Monday, Thomas said that the Union Government plans to keep a two-year buffer food stock. …
India’s urban transition, a once in history phenomenon, has the potential to shift the country’s social, environmental, political, and economic trajectory. It may exacerbate inequalities, create new opportunities, or all of the above. A report titled Urban India 2011: Evidence seeks to contribute to building a strong and inclusive knowledge …
The Census of India has recently published Provisional Population Totals, Paper - II of 2011: India, Volume-II. Based on this, TCPO has prepared a report which analyzes the pattern of urbanization, number of towns, state-wise and district-wise urban population. As at present, the data is available only for Class-I towns, …
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director E. Sreedharan has urged the State government to pursue the Phase-II expansion of the Chennai metro rail network. Observing that there has been a “violent shift” in policy ever since the new government came to power in the State, he said that the …
Mullaperiyar dam should be decommissioned and no new dam should be constructed in Mulapperiyar in the larger interests protecting the life and property of the millions of families residing in the downstream of the old dam, said Dr Mathew Koshy Punnackadu, convener of the Ecological Committee attached to Church of …
New Delhi The agriculture sector performed exceedingly well in 2011, with record grain production of over 240 million tonnes giving enough leeway for the government to lift a ban on exports of wheat and non-basmati rice and introduce the food security bill in Parliament. Farmers’ long-standing demand for crop loans …
In 1990, China was responsible for only 10% of annual emissions. But in 2010, it contributed some 27% In 1992, when the world met to discuss an agreement on climate change, equity was a simple concept: sharing the global commons – the atmosphere in this case – equally among all. …
Lucknow In what comes as a shot in the arm for the Mayawati government in UP, battling allegations of widespread misappropriation of NRHM funds and unsolved murders of two CMOs and a deputy CMO, the World Bank has approved a $152-million loan to help the poll-bound state to build infrastructure …
The Government will introduce in the Lok Sabha on Thursday the National Food Security Bill which seeks to give legal rights to subsidised foodgrains to identified beneficiaries under the public distribution system. “The National Food Security Bill will be introduced in Lok Sabha tomorrow,” Minister of State (Independent) for Food …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday expressed her “strong opposition” to the draft Food Security Bill, 2011 and urged the Centre to exempt Tamil Nadu from the purview of the Bill. In her letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said the proposed Bill was replete with “confusion and inaccuracy.” The …
‘Extra expense won’t exceed Rs 100,000 crore, will be spread over 5 years’. Critics have slammed a bloated subsidy that has been proposed for the food security bill, but officials in the government strongly believe that the resultant additional burden will not be above Rs 27,000 crore to meet the …
The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. However, the recommendation made for near-universalisation by the National Advisory Council chaired by Ms. Gandhi, was set aside by the government. To …
Draft passed unanimously; disagreements may be sorted out by a standing committee. The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers. Food minister K V Thomas said …
The Maharashtra government launched the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Arogya Yojana here on Sunday, enabling families with annual income of less than Rs. 1 lakh to avail free medical facilities worth Rs. 1.5 lakh. Health Minister Suresh Shetty announced that this scheme, when fully implemented, would benefit close to 2.5 crore …
Bhopal : With the Centre giving its in- principle consent for providing funds under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) for smaller villages, the dream of the people of 2,494 villages in Madhya Pradesh to have all- weather roads would be fulfilled soon. The issue of providing funds for connecting …
