Food Policy

Revival of the public distribution system: Evidence and explanations

Contrary to a common belief that India’s public distribution system is irreparably dysfunctional, a nine-state survey of the pds finds that the respondents received 84-88% of their full entitlement. The implicit subsidy for households below the poverty line from pds foodgrains alone is roughly equivalent, in many states, to a week’s nrega wages every month. The revival of the pds can be traced, in large part, to a renewed political interest which manifests itself in state initiatives such as expanded coverage, reduced prices, computerisation of stock management, etc.

Publication Date: 
05/11/2011
Reetika Khera
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Food Supply, India, Subsidies, Corruption, Bihar, Food Security, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Poverty, Rice, Wheat, Food Prices, Millets, Maize
Industry

Environment impact assessment of proposed Gare IV/4 Coal Block, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

M/s. Jayaswals Industries NECO Ltd. (JNIL) has been allotted sub block IV/4 of Gare Block in Mand Raigarh Coalfield, Dist. Raigarh Chhattisgarh for mining of coal for captive consumption in their Integrated Steel Plant at Raipur. In order to meet the demand of the coal in quantity and quality Integrated Steel Plant of JNIL at Raipur, it is proposed to increase the production of coal from Gare Palma-IV/4 Coal Block.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Jayaswals Neco Industries Limited
Tags:
Coal, Raigarh (D), Chhattisgarh, Mining, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Environment Management
Economy

Trapped

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is UPA's man with the political Midas touch. He needs to lend some of that magic to lift the economy out of its morass. By the Government's own estimate, the economy is expected to grow by a mere 6.9 per cent in 2011-12, a sharp decline from 8.4 per cent in 2010-11. Inflation remains uncomfortably high at over 7 per cent. Investor sentiment has been suffocated in the last one year by policy paralysis and corruption.

Publication Date: 
26/03/2012
Dhiraj Nayyar
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Economy, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Agriculture, Highways, Roads, Uttar Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Planning Commission, Power Transmission, Education, Orissa, Poverty, Malnutrition, Subsidies, Food Security, Chhattisgarh, Food Crops
Mining

Bar on JVs with private cos to develop mineral blocks likely

New Delhi The government is set to consider a proposal for a complete ban on private-public joint ventures (JVs) for developing mineral blocks allocated to state-run corporations and public sector undertakings under a special dispensation. The move would hit the plans of Adani Mining, Moser Baer, Vedanta, Monnet Ispat and the Jaypee Group, among others, in the minerals and metals business.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2012
Subhash Narayan, Parul
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Minerals, Vedanta Aluminium, Coal, Mineral-Based Industry, Mines Act 1957, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Federation Of Indian Mineral Industries, Parliament, Mining
Wildlife

‘30% tiger reserves under Naxal control’

The Naxalites are expanding their tentacles into the tiger territory. Thirty per cent of India’s tiger reserves are already under their control.

Indian forest officials, from the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, present at the Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), complained of increasing Naxal infiltration in India’s heartland. The tiger reserves comprising Valmiki in Bihar, Palamau in Jharkhand, Indravati in Chhattisgarh, Buxa in West Bengal and Simplipal in Orissa are some of the reserves bearing the brunt of the Naxal menace.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2012
Rashme Sehgal
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Naxalites, Tiger Reserves, Valmiki NP, Bihar, Palamau NP, Indravati NP, Buxa NP, West Bengal, NGO, WWF, Ranthambore NP, Tribals, Poverty, Forests, Wildlife
Land

House panel: Govt must not acquire land for pvt projects

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development, headed by BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan, on Thursday tabled its report on the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 (LARR Bill) that recommended complete overhaul of the legislation.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Land, Infrastructure Development, Irrigation, Chhattisgarh, Croplands, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
Industry

Environmental Impact Assessment Report Of 2 X 300 Mw Thermal Power Plant At Villages Jobra & Hamirpur, Tehsil Gharghoda, District Raigarh (Chhattisgarh): summary

Jayaswal Neco Industries Limited (JNIL) has formed a subsidiary company named Raigarh Energy Limited (REL) to develop a thermal power plant at Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. REL proposes to establish 600 MW thermal power plant near

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Raigarh Energy Limited
Tags:
Thermal Power Plants, Raigarh (D), Chhattisgarh, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
Industry

Daft REIA report: Expansion of Coal Washing Facility, Hind Energy & Coal Beneficiation India Pvt. Ltd., Hingadih – executive summary

M/s Hind Energy & Coal Beneficiation Pvt. Ltd. is presently operating a 2 x 1.2 MTPA dry type of coal washery at Village: Hindadih, Tehsil: Masturi, District: Bilaspur (C.G.) for which the Honorable Ministry of Environment and Forest, GoI, New Delhi has accorded Environment Clearance vide letter No.: J-11015/190/2007-IA. II (M) dated 24/06/2008.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2012
PIONEER ENVIRO Laboratories & Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Tags:
Coal, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Bilaspur (D), Chhattisgarh
Industry

Executive summary of rapid environmental impact assessment report for MSP Sponge Iron Limited, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

Pioneer Enviro Laboratories & Consultants Private Limited, Hyderabad, have prepared Draft Environmental Impact Assessment (DEIA) report for the proposed expansion Ferro alloys & Power Plant by incorporating the Terms Of Reference approved by Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi. The report contains detailed description of the following: characterization of status of environment with in an area of 10 Km.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
PIONEER ENVIRO Laboratories & Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Tags:
Iron And Steel Industry, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Raigarh (D), Chhattisgarh, Environment Management
Industry

Draft EIA/EMP report for expansion of coal based thermal power plant, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh by Korba West Power Company Limited

Korba West Power Company Limited has obtained Environmental clearance for 1 x 600 MW coal based TPP (Phase 1) in villages–Bade Bhandar, Chote Bhandar, Sarwani and Amali Bhauna, Tehsil – Pussore, Distt. – Raigarh, Chhattisgarh from Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi in 2010 Vide F.No J - 13012/57/2008 - IA.II (T) letter dated 20th May, 2010. The project is under construction phase. Compliance of the conditions stipulated in EC letter are being submitted to the respective authorities on regular bases.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2012
M/s Korba West Power Company Ltd
Tags:
Coal, Thermal Power Plants, Raigarh (D), Chhattisgarh, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Environment Management

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