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India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to … India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of … G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled with one of the worst droughts India experienced in that year …
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, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …
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, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …
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The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to … the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations … timing of El Niño developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. We construct an India specific El Niño (ISEL …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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