Budget ignores women and children

Women and children have been given short shrift with these crucial sectors facing substantive budgetary cuts, discovers Rashme Sehgal. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   The Budget......

Budget: Mission Poshan 2.0 to improve nutritional outcomes

The supplementary nutrition programme and the Poshan Abhiyaan under the Women and Child Development Ministry has been merged to launch Mission Poshan 2.0 to strengthen nutritional content,......

Activists urge govt not to increase women's marriage age

Over 100 civil society organisations have urged the government against increasing women's minimum age of marriage, claiming it will do little to improve the health of mothers and infants. In a......

How can schools reopen safely? UN agencies lay down guidelines

Warning that widespread closures of educational facilities present an unprecedented risk to children's education and wellbeing, the United Nations agencies have laid down guidelines for reopening......

Public demand to decide success of unique ID

The government's ambitious unique identification number scheme is likely to be successful only if there is sufficient demand from people. Moreover, the scheme would primarily be useful for citizens......

Budget largesse for New Delhi

The national capital got a plan allocation of Rs 2,435.68 crore (Rs 24.36 billion) in the General Budget, a whopping jump of Rs 1,673 crore (Rs 16.73 billion) from the last year's revised estimate.......

Populist plans put Aam aadmi on centrestage

A raft of populist social sector policies aimed at the common man has been cleared by the Union Cabinet and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairsover the last four weeks. An analysis of all......

CCEA clears Rs 4,600 cr proposals

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved investment proposals of over Rs 4,600 crore (Rs 46 billion) in both private and public sector projects.The largest proposal cleared was the......