Articles for Poor Population

Ration cards have become popularity cards, observes SC
1 week, 1 day ago

Ration cards have become popularity cards, observes SC

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Observing that ration cards have become a “popularity card”, the Supreme Court on Wednesday wondered if the benefits meant for the poor percolated to undeserving persons. We have to ensure that benefits reach the genuine beneficiaries.” The top court observed that states showed a high per capita growth when asked to highlight the development index but claimed 75 …

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Claims of development and high per capita income contradict high BPL population: Supreme Court
1 week, 2 days ago

Claims of development and high per capita income contradict high BPL population: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the claims of high development rate and per capita income when certain States have about 70% of their population living below poverty line, and wondered whether distribution schemes of subsidised essential food grains really reached the poor in the country. There is an inherent contradiction if 70% people are BPL and still you claim …

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World Earth Day: Climate change has significant implications for health, food security, and livelihoods in India
1 year, 11 months ago

World Earth Day: Climate change has significant implications for health, food security, and livelihoods in India

Firstpost  

Multidimensional nature of the relationship between climate change and associated reverberations makes it very difficult for India to address it, especially in the context of its socio-economically vulnerable population The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasised that the global surface temperature will exceed the targets of 1.5 C and 2 C above pre-industrial levels set …

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50% population of Bihar ‘multidimensionally poor’
3 years, 4 months ago

50% population of Bihar ‘multidimensionally poor’

The Hindu  

With over 50% of the population in the State identified as “multidimensionally poor”, Bihar has the maximum percentage of population living in poverty among all the States and the Union Territories, according to Government think-tank NITI Aayog’s Multidimensional Poverty Index. “The development of the National Multidimensional Poverty Index of India is an important contribution towards instituting a public policy tool …

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Palm Island COVID-19 vaccinations suffer poor turnout due to sorry business
3 years, 8 months ago

Palm Island COVID-19 vaccinations suffer poor turnout due to sorry business

ABC  

Authorities hoped the entire Palm Island community would be vaccinated with at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine this week after a recent COVID-19 scare. Key points: There were poor turnouts for COVID-19 vaccinations on Palm Island this week due to sorry business Authorities hoped to keep unvaccinated travellers out while the majority of the population got vaccinated Townsville …

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7 million die every year as 92% of world's population without clean air
5 years, 9 months ago

7 million die every year as 92% of world's population without clean air

India Today  

A whopping 92 percent of world's population are unable to breathe clean air because of air pollution, which has been identified as the cause of 7 million deaths every year across the globe, eminent environmental scientist Prof Uma Charan Mohanty said, "Pollution is on the rise due to anthropogenic reasons but at the same time, mankind needs energy and development, …

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中共中央、国务院发布关于打赢脱贫攻坚战三年行动指导意见
6 years, 7 months ago

中共中央、国务院发布关于打赢脱贫攻坚战三年行动指导意见

China Daily  

8月19日，《中共中央、国务院关于打赢脱贫攻坚战三年行动的指导意见》发布。 The guideline reiterates the country's target of lifting all rural poor and impoverished counties out of poverty and eliminating absolute poverty by 2020 to build a moderately prosperous society. 《意见》重申了我国脱贫攻坚战的目标：到2020年，农村贫困人口实现脱贫，贫困县摘帽，消除绝对贫困，贫困地区和贫困群众同全国一道进入全面小康社会。 《意见》提出，到2020年，实现贫困地区基本公共服务主要领域指标接近全国平均水平。集中连片特困地区（contiguous poor areas）和革命老区（old revolutionary bases）、民族地区及边疆地区（ethnic minority and border areas）发展环境明显改善，深度贫困地区如期完成全面脱贫任务。 《意见》要求坚持严格执行现行扶贫标准。严格按照“两不愁、三保障”要求： 确保贫困人口不愁吃、不愁穿（poor population should be guaranteed food and clothing）； 保障贫困家庭孩子接受九年义务教育（children from poor families should be guaranteed nine-year compulsory education），确保有学上、上得起学； 保障贫困人口基本医疗需求（basic …

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India must focus on making universal health coverage a reality
6 years, 10 months ago

India must focus on making universal health coverage a reality

Hindustan Times  

At the 2012 World Health Assembly, the then director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared that universal health coverage is the most powerful concept that public health has to offer. Without robust primary health services, preventable or easily treatable diseases will flood secondary and tertiary care facilities demanding expensive care for complications that should have been avoided. …

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Budget 2018 : Big boost to the poor and rural population
7 years, 1 month ago

Budget 2018 : Big boost to the poor and rural population

Op India  

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is presenting the Union Budget in the Parliament now. Under Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojna popularly known as Soubhagya Scheme, The FM has announced that the government has now allocated Rs 16,000 crores to provide free electricity connections to poor households. By 2022, every block with more than 50% ST population and at least …

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Corruption and Dereliction of Duty, stay away from China’s anti-poverty plan[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
9 years, 5 months ago

Corruption and Dereliction of Duty, stay away from China’s anti-poverty plan[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Wang Qishan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, addresses a conference on the work of central-level Party inspection in Beijing, China, Feb 11, 2015. At a news briefing on Oct 12, Hong Tianyun, deputy director of the State …

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It’s the wally yachters who are burning the planet
15 years, 5 months ago

It’s the wally yachters who are burning the planet

The Hindu  

It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed. Between 1980 and 2005, for instance, sub-Saharan Africa produced 18.5 per cent of the world’s population growth and just 2.4 per cent of the growth in CO{-2}. Sixty-three per cent …

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Rich-poor divide serious, study finds
18 years, 3 months ago

Rich-poor divide serious, study finds

China Daily  

By Xin Dingding Updated: 2006-12-26 06:51 About 90 per cent of Chinese believe the polarization between the rich and poor is "serious" in China, according to a survey. And more than 80 per cent of the respondents surveyed said something must be done to narrow the expanding gap between the rich and poor, while 14.1 per cent said it was …

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