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3-tier Remuneration Scheme to Woo 100 Million Tribals Soon

After the job guarantee scheme played a crucial role in UPA’s reelection the government is working on a plan to reach out to 100 mil lion tribals to ensure remun eration for minor forest pro duce.

Publication Date: 
15/04/2013
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tribals, People, Minor Forest Produce, Economy, Unemployment, Mahua, Tendu, Tamarind, Medicinal Plants, Forests, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat
Habitat And Urbanisation

For people, Surat & Ahd top list

New Delhi: In sharp contrast with the findings of the first Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems, Surat and Ahmedabad topped the list of 11 cities in the public survey on quality of life and city-

Publication Date: 
05/04/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Surat (T), Ahmedabad (T), Kanpur (T), Drinking Water, Sanitation, Public Transport, Pollution Control, Pune (T), Survey of India, People
People

Youth policy and the future of African development

One of the greatest challenges facing governments and policymakers in Africa today is how to provide opportunities for the continent’s more than 200 million youth so that they can have decent lives and contribute to the economic development of their countries.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2013
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Mwangi S. Kimenyi
Africa Growth Initiative
Tags:
People, Africa, Unemployment, Population Trends, Development
Economy

The little data book 2013

The Little Data Book 2013 is a pocket edition of World Development Indicators2013. It is intended as a quick reference for users of the World Development Indicators database, book, and mobile app. The database, which covers more than 1,200 indicators and spans more than 50 years.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2013
The World Bank
Tags:
Economy, Environment, People, Statistics, India, Global, Forests, Deforestation, Water Resources, Sanitation, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Electricity
Economy

World development indicators 2013

This premier World Bank compilation of cross-country comparable data on development contains more than 1,200 time series indicators for 214 economies and more than 30 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years. This latest edition is organized around six themes—world view, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2013
The World Bank
Tags:
Development, Economy, Economic Development, Environment, Statistics, India, Global, Poverty, Health, Education, People
People

Declining population trend in Naxal-hit Chhattisgarh districts

Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt has sought details from the State government on the declining population trends in six Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected districts of Koriya, Dakshin Bastar, Dantewada, Bijapur, Sukma, Jashpur and Kanker as reflected in the Provisional Census 2011 figures.

The State government says while it would wait for a more detailed analysis of the final Census reports when published by the Registrar General of India, it is not averse to an independent population survey in these districts.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2013
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Koriya (D), Bijapur (D), Naxalites, Census 2011, Population, Tribals, People
Wildlife

‘For Saurashtrians, lions are like kin’

Ahmedabad: The people of Saurashtra take care of lions as they would of their own family members. If they spot a lion in the vicinity of their village, they take pride in the fact and protect it.

Publication Date: 
25/03/2013
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Lion, People
Poverty

About 30% people below poverty line in 2009-10, says govt

About 30% of people in India were below the poverty line in 2009-10 that was based on the monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) of R673 for rural areas and R860 for urban areas, Parliament was informed today.

“As per the latest available information, the poverty line at all India level for 2009-10 is estimated as MPCE of R673 for rural areas and R860 for urban areas. The percentage of people living below poverty line in the country in 2009-10 has been estimated at 29.8 per cent,” minister of State for Parliamentary affairs and planning Rajeev Shukla told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

Publication Date: 
07/03/2013
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Poverty, Planning Commission, Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Nutrition, Health Care, Housing, People
People

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012: Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2012-13)

The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment present this Thirty-second Report of the Committee on “The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012” pertaining to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Publication Date: 
04/03/2013
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Scavengers, Rehabilitation, India, Sanitation, Sewers, Legislation
People

Will defeat Reds through development: Jairam Ramesh

Kalahandi: The Centre would 'fight' Naxalites through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect the tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday.

"In the name of protecting forest dwellers, Maoists have created an atmosphere of fear (in society). Our fight against the rebels is continuing. Through schemes for tribal welfare and women empowerment, with a strong political willpower, we will defeat their designs," he told a meeting of Adivasi Adhikar Samavesa at Narla in Odisha's Kalahandi district.

Publication Date: 
04/03/2013
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Kalahandi, Naxalites, Tribals, Ministry Of Rural Development, Land Reforms, Development, People

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