National Food Security Act and the action plan mooted by the Centre has not yet been implemented, serious implementation will help arrest inflation within a specific time frame. State government has to complete setting up of warehouses to store foodgrain, an end-to-end computerized network linking depots to retail vendors to monitor foodgrain movement and fast-track courts to … [Read more...] about State Goes Slow on Food Security Act
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Andhra Pradesh Hoping for Special Category Status
CM designate of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu seeks special package plus financial help from Centre for Seemandhra, having 13 districts Planning Commission, National Developmental Council to take final call, Seemandhra likely to get Uttarakhand and HP like packages Planning Commission has worked out blueprint for developmental assistance to the new government Read … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh Hoping for Special Category Status
Direct Democracy : Planning in India
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose emphasised the objectives of planning in independent India. He set up the Congress Planning Committee with Nehru as its Chairman and himself as the congress president (Oct 1938) but failed to continue because many leaders were imprisoned due to second world war(1939) and quit India struggle(Aug 1942). A Planning Board was set up by Britist regime … [Read more...] about Direct Democracy : Planning in India
Dis-ability or This-ability ?
India 7th country to ratify UN convention on Rights of Person with Disability, who are the most excluded persons across numerous participatory platforms. There are an estimated 15% persons with disabilities in the World as per the report on disabilities jointly published by WHO and World Bank in 2011. Planning Commission estimates 5% of our population with disabilities as … [Read more...] about Dis-ability or This-ability ?