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Food Policy

Scheme that endangers food security of poor

BHUBANESWAR: The Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme was launched by the Orissa Government to ensure food security to the poor.

Publication Date: 
11/08/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Food Security, Poverty, Orissa (Odisha), Rice, Food Supply, Rural Poverty, Rural Development
People

State response to Maoist violence in India: A critical assessment

Maoist violence is the consequence of increased atrocities against
scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (especially in the central tribal
belt) and widespread tribal unrest due to commercialisation of forest
resources.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2010
K S Subramanian
Economic and Political Weekly
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32
23
Tags:
Naxalites, India, Scheduled Castes, People, Conflicts, Tribals, Rural Poverty, Development, Displacement, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa (Odisha), Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand
Poverty

Poverty and inequality in Uttar Pradesh during 1993-94 to 2004-05: A decomposition analysis

This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter-region and intra-region differences.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2010
Durgesh Chandra Pathak
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Tags:
Poverty, Uttar Pradesh, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Bundelkhand, Rural Poverty, Green Revolution, Land Ownership, Rice, Scheduled Castes
Agriculture

2,575 farmers commit suicide in eight years

BHUBANESWAR: AS many as 2,575 persons engaged in farming and agricultural activities committed suicide during a eight-year period between 2000 and 2008.

To a question from Nihar Mahanand of the Congress in the Assembly today, Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout said that compared to this 38,299 suicide cases were reported during the period.

Publication Date: 
28/07/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Orissa (Odisha), Rural Poverty, New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Economy

The NREGA, the Maoists and the developmental woes of the Indian state

The United Progressive Alliance government

Publication Date: 
10/07/2010
Kaustav Banerjee, Partha Saha
Economic and Political Weekly
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28
42
Tags:
Agriculture, Development, Economy, People, Farmers, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, India, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Economic and Political Weekly, Naxalites, Rural Poverty, Planning Commission, Kaustav Banerjee, Partha Saha
Poverty

Poverty alleviation: Government to launch plan

BHUBANESWAR: The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) will be implemented in the state soon. This was decided at a highlevel meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. The NRLM aims at addressing poverty and alleviating rural poverty by 2015.

The scheme also targets to cover 50 percent of the rural households by self help groups (SHGs) during the next three years.

Publication Date: 
03/07/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Development, Rural Development, Poverty, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Orissa (Odisha), Rural Poverty, New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Economy

Inclusive growth and rural poverty in India: Policy implications for the Eleventh plan

The Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-12) has chosen 'faster and more inclusive growth' as its central theme. It recognised the need to make growth 'more inclusive' in terms of benefits of growth flowing to those sections of population, which have been bypassed by high rates of economic growth achieved in recent years.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
Madhusudan Ghosh
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
65
3
552
Tags:
Rural Poverty, India, Development, Economic Development, Planning Commission, Economy
Climate Change

Reducing climate change induced vulnerabilities through NREGS-forest convergence

Convergence between any two schemes is a mutually beneficial proposition. That is why joint guidelines were issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Rural Development on January 9, 2009, to usher in convergence efficiently and effectively.

Publication Date: 
30/06/2010
Mohd Aatish Khan, Sunpreet Kaur
Community Forestry
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0
35
Tags:
Climate Change, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Forests, Rural Poverty, Joint Forest Management (JFM), India, Climate Mitigation, Rural Development, Afforestation
People

We are scared, what if they jail our people again

Raipur: The maize he grew on the small zig-zagged shaped patch of forest land was the only food for his family. But in 1998, the forest department picked up Bir Singh Markam, and along with 75 other men in his village in Bastar, and jailed him for illegally occupying forest land.

Publication Date: 
18/06/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Encroachments, Forest Rights Act 2006, People, Tribals, Chhattisgarh, Times Of India (New Delhi), Rural Poverty
Poverty

MNREGA: Job card holders want allowance

Nearly 1,000 workers from 80 village panchayats staged a demonstration in front of the deputy commissioner

Publication Date: 
18/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Punjab, Jalandhar (T), Indian Express (New Delhi), Rural Poverty

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