झारखंड के स्कूलों में चला आज “अंडा अभियान”

भोजन का अधिकार, झारखंड के अंडा अभियान में आज झारखंड के 19 ज़िलों में बच्चों को स्कूल में अंडा खिलाया गया. यह अभियान झारखंड में राष्ट्रीय खाद्य सुरक्षा कानून के तुरंत क्रियान्वन की मांग को लेकर आयोजित किया गया था. यह कानून बच्चों को रोज़ स्कूल या आंगनवाड़ी के माध्यम से पौष्टिक भोजन व हर गर्भवती महिला को 6,000 रुपए के मातृत्व लाभ का अधिकार देता है. साथ ही साथ, इस कानून के अनुसार झारखंड के ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों के 86 प्रतिशत परिवारों व शहरी क्षेत्रों के 58 प्रतिशत परिवारों को जन वितरण प्रणाली से सस्ता राशन मिलेगा.

Children Served Eggs across Jharkhand in “Anda Abhiyan”

Thousands of children across 19 districts of Jharkhand were served eggs today in their midday meal as part of the Right to Food Campaign’s anda abhiyan, which demanded the immediate implementation of the National Food Security Act. The Act provides not only for a daily nutritious meal for every child (at the local school or anganwadi), but also for maternity entitlements of Rs 6,000 for every pregnant woman. Further, 86 per cent of households in rural Jharkhand and 58 per cent of households in urban Jharkhand are to be given subsidized foodgrains under the Public Distribution System.

Government Cracks Whip on Delays in NREGA Payments, Rs 5.17Lakhs Paid as Pending Wages and Compensation to Khunti Workers

Khunti (26 November 2013): In August this year, the Jharkhand Labour Commission passed a landmark order awarding compensation of Rs 2,000 per worker for delay and non-payment of wages in a work done under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme of Murhigram panchayat in Khunti block. A total of 91 workers were paid pending wages and compensation money, amounting to a total of Rs5.17 lakhs.Of the 91 workers, 79 workers came to the Khunti block office today to receive the money. Four workers had died since working and the rest eight have either migrated in search of work or could not come because of ill health. Their money was collected by their family members. The compensation amount was recovered from the Block Development Officer, Block Programme Officer, RozgarSevak and Panchayat Sevak.

Cash plan flops in Congress bastion

Photo:The Times of India

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times 

The UPA’s showpiece direct benefits transfer (DBT) plan is struggling.  Poor Aadhaar enrolment clubbed with lack of banking facilities is coming in the way of the anti-poverty programme.

Numbers are telling. Two months after the roll out in Rae Bareli, the constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, only `1,400 has been transferred in Rae Bareli. The district has 6,000 people enlisted for the National Social Security Programme. Only one person has seen cash transferred to his account.

Right to Food Campaign,Jharkhand Press coverage

Activists intensify food bill agitation in Jharkhand

Right to Food Campaign Yaatra,Jamshedpur

The Times of India

RANCHI: Activists of the Right to Food Campaign have decided to intensify public pressure to bring about logical changes in the proposed bill.

Expressing discontent over the inordinate delay in tabling the bill, adviser to the monitoring committee of the Supreme Court for food security scheme Balram, said they wanted the bill to be passed but with necessary amendments. "We have been campaigning for a holistic bill covering all aspects of people's basic right to fight against hunger and have no objection to the legislation as long as certain amendments are accepted by the government," he said

नकद हस्तांतरण:लाचार स्थिति,लचर व्यवस्था

This is the Hindi translation of the article written  by Anumeha Yadav, published in the Op-ed page of The Hindu

A district level Public hearing on Nutrition in Garhwa ,Jharkhand