Right to Food

Lockdown Hunger

Staff ReporterApril 22, 2020
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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…
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Staff ReporterApril 6, 2020
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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…
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Staff ReporterJune 20, 2019
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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,…
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Shahnawaz AkhtarMarch 29, 2019
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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…
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Bengal

Shabina AkhtarSeptember 28, 2018
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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…
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Staff ReporterSeptember 28, 2018
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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…
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Staff ReporterJune 22, 2018
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“Alarming levels of food insecurity in Jharkhand causing hunger deaths,” economist, Jean Dreze

Ranchi: At least 12 people have died from starvation in Jharkhand, but instead of taking action against functionaries whose lapses…
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Staff ReporterMay 29, 2018
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Jharkhand’s mentally-challenged senior citizen denied ration and pension, dies

Ranchi: A 65-year-old mentally-ill person died in Kodakel village of Murhu block in Khunti district of Jharkhand on Friday. He…
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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

Right to Food Campaign tells Hemant government, “Token Promises Will Not Do much emergency relief to the people”

No pension in Jharkhand’s Latehar district for 171 days, where starvation death took place recently

Jean Dreze was more concerned about the meeting than his detention

Bengal’s share of shame: Beggar died from hunger and not illness, claim activists

On Santoshi’s death anniversary, elders narrate how Aadhaar linkage has stopped their pension

“Alarming levels of food insecurity in Jharkhand causing hunger deaths,” economist, Jean Dreze

Jharkhand’s mentally-challenged senior citizen denied ration and pension, dies

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