Budget amidst unprecedented circumstances.
The digital progress made in health and education has not reached everyone and the gaps need to be fixed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also posed a risk to the battle against malnourishment and food coupons may be a way out.There are high expectations from the
Budget 2021, which comes about a year after India recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case. With the pandemic severely disrupting business as usual, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Union Budget amidst unprecedented circumstances.
The crisis has opened up opportunities in education and health but the new ideas have not been able to cross the social fault lines of an unequal society. So, it may be time to bridge those divides with innovative programmes like food coupons for the malnourished, and spending money to ensure that no one is left behind in all the digital progress made in health and education.
Building a viable value chain for pulses
Pulses output Rapid strides - THE HINDU×
Boosting production and consumption of pulses is beneficial for both the nutrition and sustainability factors
The rapid strides taken by India in pulses production is the less talked about success story of the decade. Overall pulses production reached a high of 231.5 lakh tonne (lt) in 2019-20, against 146.4 lt in 2009-10. With imports coming down to 11 per cent of availability during 2019-20, we are now largely self-sufficient.
This significant increase in production is a commendable feat by the farmers. Regular procurement of pulses at Minimum Support Price (MSP) and focus on increased production and productivity have played a critical role in providing remunerative prices and an assured market to the cultivators.
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A fashion designer and his dream of making World s Largest Mask
Fashion designer Manish Tripathi gets candid about his âWorldâs Largest Maskâ project and the thought behind it.
2020 is almost over. While it will be difficult to get over the trying times, the year has also left with varied life lessons. And, to ending the year on a positive note, Delhi-based fashion designer, Manish Tripathi, is planning create a Guinness World Record with his âWorldâs Largest Maskâ project. The mask, measuring 100 sqm, is an amalgamation of fabrics from 10 states, and the efforts of thousands of women from across India working in the textile and crafts sector.
Christmas 2020: Of natural wreaths and green festivities
A common way to prepare a Christmas tree is to use a branch of the locally-available pine tree or decorate potted Thuja shrubs (Mor Pankhi in Hindi), ferns, especially asparagus ferns, palms, and the indoor-friendly araucarias December 25, 2020 9:10:15 am
Christmas arrangements using succulents have gained a lot of popularity as bright, living Christmas trees. (Photo: Swasti Pachauri)
With COVID-19-induced lockdowns and restrictions spanning several months, many of us have missed the fruits of ecology and nature around us. Nature enthusiasts among us had it exceedingly tough with the new home-bound realities. Now, as 2020 finally comes to an end with Christmas carols ringing in, elements of nature could be brought home with living trees and authentic celebrations derived from our natural surroundings.