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Government Programmes
Budget 2021: Cash transfer and urban employment guarantee can help blunt the economic blow
Posted on 26 Jan, 2021 11:03 AMTo revive India’s growth story and to cash in on our rapidly closing demographic dividend window, Prof Santosh Mehrotra, a human development economist suggests four essential proposals that must be included in the Budget 2021. This includes an increased expenditure in infrastructure, health sector and an urban employment guarantee programme.
![There should be an increased expenditure in infrastructure to create jobs in the construction sector. (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/pxhere_1.jpg?itok=brio78RP)
Budget 2021: Policy measures in the nutrition sector
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 11:34 AMIndia's food security policy framework includes many proven nutrition interventions. In 2015, India committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger.
![Children eating their mid-day meal at a worksite school in Andhra Pradesh (Image: ILO Asia Pacific, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/24984456222_84706ac7c1_k.jpg?itok=v5mVc8lR)
Child malnutrition rises in five years, as per NFHS-5 data
Posted on 13 Jan, 2021 10:08 AMGovernment of India has recently released the data of the first round of National Family Health Survey-5, 2019-20.
![Children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than those before. (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/children_1.jpg?itok=6iSihkcF)
Embracing planning for faecal sludge management: The tale of two towns
Posted on 12 Dec, 2020 10:51 AMUnder Project Nirmal, a detailed planning process was undertaken for designing Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) interventions in Angul and Dhenkanal Municipalities based on the existing sanitation situation in the towns, the techno-economic feasibility as well as cap
![Project Nirmal demonstrates appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha. (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/lead_8.jpg?itok=wqFC1rpO)
New packaged drinking water rules to apply from January 1, 2021
Posted on 09 Dec, 2020 12:43 PMRevised standards for packaged drinking water to apply from January 1st, 2021
![Filtration plants in a packaging water units (Image source: Tushar Trivedi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/packaged_water.jpg?itok=_FHenyb4)
District development, data and diversity: Lessons and the way forward
Posted on 08 Dec, 2020 01:35 PMThe coronavirus pandemic poses a challenge for implementing developmental responses in the context of district, one of the most important administrative units in India. There has been a push towards development at the grassroots level through AtmaNirbhar Bharat, Vocal for Local, One District One Product and National Infrastructure Pipeline.
![The quality of the government data for schematic reporting has improved as compared to 20 years ago, that does not necessarily mean that planning has improved (Image: Pikist)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/data.jpg?itok=-yveNJ4s)
Not in the interest of women farmers!
Posted on 07 Dec, 2020 11:52 PMThree farm-related Bills were recently passed in the Parliament by the BJP led government at the Center, which have subsequently received presidential assent.
![Farm women, overworked and underpaid (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farm_women2.jpg?itok=FYXAb8hD)
Administrative reforms towards Atmanirbhar Bharat
Posted on 25 Nov, 2020 12:49 PMPolicies are seen as a political investment, and the executive and legislature have electoral pressures and considerations. Civil services and other government jobs have generated interests primarily for their job security, high salaries, and promotions.
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A sanitation veteran leads from the front
Posted on 11 Nov, 2020 04:00 PMGyanchand Mishra is 65, the veteran of many a sanitation campaign that, he says, has ended successfully. Mixing politics and activism, his long association with sanitation resulted in Dhenkanal’s first ODF Ward-3.
![As a result of Gyanchand Mishra's efforts, Ward 3 of Dhenkanal became ODF in a matter of a month](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-11/gyaneshwar-mishra.jpg?itok=lcMp97un)