Millennium Development Goals Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the MDGs are both global and local, tailored by each country to suit specific development needs. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals, which all 192 United Nations member states and at least 23…
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According to Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008 Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank,http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241500265_eng.pdf: • Five years remain until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) adopted at the 2000 Millennium Summit. There are two targets for assessing progress in improving maternal health (MDG 5): reducing the maternal mortality ratio…
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In the UN Millennium Declaration of September 2000, leaders from 189 nations embraced a vision for the world in which developed and developing countries would work in partnership for the betterment of all. To provide a framework by which progress could be measured, the Declaration was broken down into 8 Millennium Development Goals, 18 targets and…
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KEY TRENDS • During 2014-15, while procurement of foodgrains (rice and wheat) increased from 56.9 million tonnes to 60.2 million tonnes, offtake of foodgrains (rice and wheat) from the PDS decreased from 59.8 million tonnes to 55.9 million tonnes. Despite increased availability in the PDS and prevalence of high inflation in foodgrains, dependence on the PDS is reducing,…
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Please click here to access the document titled Take Home Ration: Good Practices across the States/UTs (published in 2022), which has been prepared jointly by NITI Aayog and UN World Food Programme. NITI Aayog and the UN World Food Programme have collaborated in bringing out good practices related to Take Home Rations (THR) prevalence across the States/UTs. There…
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The key findings of the report titled Fulfilling the promise of One Nation One Ration Card: A frontline perspective from 5 Indian states (released in April, 2022), which has been prepared by Dalberg and Omidyar Network India, are as follows (please click here to access): • The study brings to light both demand and supply-side perspectives on the ONORC. The study has…
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Please click here to access the Details of Second Tranche announced by Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman (dated 14th May, 2020) under Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan to support Indian economy in fight against COVID-19, Ministry of Finance, Press Information Bureau. Please click here to access the Details of the Relief Package of Rs 1.70 Lakh Crore under Pradhan Mantri Garib…
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The NSS Report no. 565: Public Distribution System and Other Sources of Household Consumption, 2011-12 is based on information collected through NSS Schedule 1.0 (Consumer Expenditure), Type 2, during July 2011-June 2012 from 101651 households (59683 rural and 41968 urban) in 7469 villages and 5268 urban blocks spread over the entire country. According to the NSS…
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Recommendations of High Level Committee on restructuring of FCI (Please click here to access the report) High Level Committee (HCL) on restructuring of Food Corporation of India (FCI) has submitted its report to the Government. It was submitted by Shri Shanta Kumar, Chairman of the Committee to the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi yesterday. The HCL was set…
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