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Fraudulent Poverty Estimates of The Planning Commission
- March 23, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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The efforts of the Planning Commission to use fraudulent methods to deliberately underestimate the level of poverty in the country are condemnable. In spite of the national outrage when the Planning Commission had given its earlier estimates to the Supreme Court, it has retained the same poverty measure suggested by the Tendulkar Committee. This has meant an absurdly low national [...]
Silent Valley – K. A. Beena
- March 23, 2012
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“Silent Valley is the best assurance that a forest can speak through human beings.” said the environmentalist Shri. M. K. Prasad. The tourists and visitors to Silent Valley cannot disagree with him because Silent Valley gives an unusual experience of silence while in the midst of nature. It gives one the rarest of the rare experience of being with nature, becoming one with it. Silent Valley National Park is located in [...]
The Gleam of Bell Metal from Mannar – Pallavi Chinya
- March 23, 2012
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Silence is what envelopes you as you enter Mannar, a small town in Kerala. But as you take a stroll in the comforting natural surroundings of this town, breaking through the many layers of silence, the sound of clinking of metals, welding and grinding machines reaches your ears probably piquing your interest. And as you move towards the source of the sound [...]
Chirp for the Sparrow; Tweet for the Sparrow – Manish Desai
- March 23, 2012
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They were once everywhere? Chirping and flapping their wings at the window sills, on top of cupboards and on the branches of trees. Where have all the little sparrows gone? This is the most frequently asked question about sparrows these days. The association between humans and the house sparrow dates back to several centuries and no other bird has been associated with [...]
World Health Day 2012 – overview
- March 22, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Ageing and health - to which each and every one of us can relate – is the theme of this year’s World Health Day. Using the slogan “Good health adds life to years”, campaign activities and materials will focus on how good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resource for [...]
Anxiety–Tips to overcome – Dr.Kesiraju Ramprasad
- March 21, 2012
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Anxiety- Tips to overcome Anxiety is an emotion associated with Fear or nervousness. Fear takes so much of our time and energies and takes joys out of our Life. It paralyzes us, we cannot do anything, and we end up trapped by fear and anxiety. If we are prone to anxiety we have two choices. Either we have to live [...]
OPINION POLLS : MYTH OR REALITY – Saurabh Sinha
- March 21, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Over the past one year the political scenario in the country has witnessed turmoil like situation largely created by the turn of events that have taken place during the period creating a perception of a banana republic type situation. The major factor behind this scenario is a series of gargantuan scams unearthed by the media at the national [...]
Poverty declined to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10
- March 21, 2012
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Going by the controversial daily consumption number of Rs 28.65 per day, one out of every three Indian is poor as per the new Planning Commission’s estimates which have pegged the poverty ratio in 2009-10 at 29.8 pc, down from 37.2 pc in 2004-05 An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban cities and Rs 672.8 in [...]
India: City Lights And City Nightmares: Lives Running On Empty – Sarada Lahangir
- March 21, 2012
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Extreme poverty and child malnutrition evokes images of communities living in some distant rural pocket. But that may be a gross over-simplification. UNICEF’s ‘State of the World‘s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World’ notes, among many other observations, that one-third of children in the world’s urban areas are not registered at birth; that overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in slums [...]
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