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Is World facing poverty & hunger?

Posted on July 18, 2011 by SRRF

As the food prices shoot up world-wide again after peaking in early 2008 there is concern all around that the two big price spikes within four years, suggests that something serious is rattling world food chain. Several world institutions are … Continue reading →

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RBI allays states fears over the powers entrusted to it under MFI bill

Posted on July 13, 2011 by SRRF

One of the fears of the proposed MFI bill is that it will override the powers of the state governments, since the bill proposes RBI to be the regulator of MFIs. Earlier provision under Malegam Committee recommendations was that only … Continue reading →

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Anaemia and Early marriage pose health problems for adolescent girls

Posted on July 13, 2011 by SRRF

India’s higher economic growth has not been able to provide a better nutritional status for the country’s adolescent’s girls, as the country houses the largest population of adolescents (243 million) almost 20 percent of the world’s adolescent population followed by … Continue reading →

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A middle-class woman takes the challenge of helping underprivileged

Posted on July 9, 2011 by SRRF

Dear Group Members, To further add value to our Dialogue, from this post onwards we will start to share a Positive Story, at least once a week. Hope this will spur some of the Group members to share their own … Continue reading →

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MFIs: MFI Development and Regulation Bill, 2011 released for comments

Posted on July 9, 2011 by SRRF

Ministry of Finance on Wednesday, 6th July 2011 released the Bill for comments being anxiously awaited by several stakeholders. The Bill has moved away from the Malegam Committee recommendations on several counts. First of all RBI is being proposed as … Continue reading →

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Challenge of Getting Street Children to School

Posted on July 2, 2011 by SRRF

We all have seen young kids running around on the traffic signals, begging or selling titbits or working in dhabas, etc. For bringing such children into education stream, SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) has a component called ‘Intervention for Out of … Continue reading →

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Life Expectancy: Despite consistent improvement India still lags its neighbours

Posted on July 2, 2011 by SRRF

India has a long way to go before it matches average life expectancy with other Asian countries. According to CIA-The World Fact book, China has the highest life expectancy at 78.32, Malaysia 74.20, Sri lanka 72.40, Indonesia 70.70, and Pakistan … Continue reading →

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Government must reform structural safety norms

Posted on July 1, 2011 by SRRF

After the collapse of a building at Lalitha Park which resulted in tragic death of 59 persons, Delhi Government had come out with the mandatory requirement of producing a Structural Safety Certificate while registering any property deal. The Government felt … Continue reading →

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Taming the Corruption – Will it ever happen?

Posted on July 1, 2011 by SRRF

Behind all the noise and political manoeuvring on corruption, there is some desire at the Government level to make an impact on the corruption or at least be seen to be doing something about it. While Government under political pressure … Continue reading →

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Govt plans an RTE redressal system

Posted on June 28, 2011 by SRRF

As expected a large number of complaints are being received by the Ministry of Human Resources at the centre and with the Education Departments at the state level under Right to Education Act, 2009 which ensures free and compulsory education … Continue reading →

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