Jharkhand: Loan waiver for 9 L farmers, change in land acquisition policy among slew of cabinet decisions
The cabinet also decided to contract ‘suitable and experienced’ manufacturers to supply rations to anganwadis, instead of a government arm doing it. Updated: December 24, 2020 12:11:45 am
Hemant Soren
Loan waiver for 9.07 lakh Jharkhand farmers at a cost of Rs 2000 crore; finding ‘suitable and experienced’ manufactures for anganwadis’ Take Home Ration; shifting from land acquisition to land pooling for infrastructure development in urban areas; and replacing Prime Minister crop insurance scheme with its own – these are some of the key policy decisions approved by the Jharkhand state cabinet Wednesday.
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Do the governments, Central and state, care? In my view, the lasting contribution of the UPA governments (2004-2014) was lifting 270 million people out of poverty. All other measures and programmes were impactful when they were taken or rolled out, but become part of the normal after some time. For instance, the two-step devaluation done in July 1991 cut the path toward a market-determined exchange rate but, today, a market-determined exchange rate is taken as so normal that describing it as a path-breaking reform (which it was) will hardly cause any eyebrows to be raised.
Persistent poverty and unemployment have terrible consequences. One of them is malnutrition among children. Every government rolls out programmes Integrated Child Development Scheme, Mid-day Meal Scheme, POSHAN Abhiyan and so on. Huge sums of money are allocated in the Budget, and it is claimed they are spent. There is a watchdog agency the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. Health and nutriti
Modi is popular, BJP keeps winning, but Indiaâs indicators & global rankings are alarming
Govtâs own NFHS, as well as many global non-Left institutionsâ rankings have shown a drop in Indiaâs development indicators. This will begin to hurt soon.
Shekhar Gupta 19 December, 2020 8:16 am IST Text Size:
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As this troubled year comes to an end, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have some concerns. India is looking worse than before on many key indicators, and we arenât referring to the pandemic year.
Why now, you might ask. There is no particular reason to make an assessment of a government in its seventh year. The next general election is three and a half years away. Nor is there any evidence of an itch rising in the voterâs love affair with Modi. If Modi and his party are winning almost every political battle, what are we complaining about?
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Phase one of the National Family Health Survey-5, covering nearly 50 per cent of the population, has thrown up a shocking challenge: tackling the increase in the number of children suffering from malnutrition in most states. This negative trend is alarming and spells a worrisome rise in the burden of a young population prone to disease and early death. It signals huge loopholes in the government’s policies targeting malnutrition such as the Integrated Child Development Scheme, the National Nutrition Policy, the Mid-Day Meal Scheme for schoolchildren, and the National Food Security Act 2013. The government needs to investigate why despite better monitoring following scams that riddled these well-intentioned schemes, there is a rise in the number of stunted, wasted and underweight kids. Though the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected the vulnerable groups as the food supply chain was disrupted, has contributed to this setback, it is n