Tag: Right to Food
Providing 25 kg free foodgrain to 8 lakh households, will cost only Rs 44 crore per month, says RTF to Jharkhand govt
Kolkata: A team from Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand Chapter met Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Food Minister Rameshwar Uraon to alert them of...
Right to Food Campaign tells Hemant government, “Token Promises Will Not Do much emergency relief to the people”
Ranchi: As a death allegedly from hunger has been reported from Garhwa district, Right To Food Campaign’s Jharkhand chapter has expressed grave concern on...
No pension in Jharkhand’s Latehar district for 171 days, where starvation death took place recently
Ranchi: Jharkhand, where two more persons have died from starvation recently, were pensioners too, but neither they were getting rations, nor pensions. Raghubar Das...
Jean Dreze was more concerned about the meeting than his detention
Ranchi: On Thursday renowned development economist Jean Dreze was detained by the Jharkhand Police in Garhwa district. The news shocked many as people both...
Bengal’s share of shame: Beggar died from hunger and not illness, claim activists
Kolkata: West Bengal registered its second starvation death in 2018, when 68-year-old Bimla Pandey, breathed her last in her small one-room mud hut in...
On Santoshi’s death anniversary, elders narrate how Aadhaar linkage has stopped their pension
Ranchi: “My physically-challenged wife has not got her pension for the last four years. When we go to the bank to find out the...