Hina Rabani visits India.

Fashionclutch: The Foreign Ministers of India SM Krishna and Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar have begun their talks in Delhi.Thirty-four-year-old Hina Rabbani Khar and SM Krishna, 45 years older than her, made brief statements before starting their discussions.


Government sources say that Mr Krishna will, early in his private dialogue with Ms Khar, raise India's extreme displeasure over her meeting yesterday with Kashmiri separatists in Delhi. The fact that she held these meetings before her official interaction with the government began is seen as a poor diplomatic move.

In his public welcoming remarks, Mr Krishna said, "India looks forward to a cooperative relationship with Pakistan... it is in the interest of peace not only for our two countries but for the entire region and beyond. Perhaps we owe this to ourselves as well as to succeeding generations."

"We feel the relationship between the two countries should not be held hostage by the past." we also stressed that officials on both sides must be "respectful of the reality of the two countries” said by Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Ministers of Pakistan.

Don't believe govt will act on illegal mining report: Hegde

Fashionclutch:  Ahead of submission of Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hedge has indicted chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in the illegal mining scam in the state, reports said today. Hegde has also named former CM Kumaraswamy and Congress MP Anil Lad in the report.


Lokayukta Registrar Moosa Kunhi Nayar Moole is slated to hand over the report to Chief Secretary S V Ranganath later today.

The report has pegged the loss to the state exchequer due to illegal mining between March 2009 and April 2010 at more than Rs 1,800 crore.

Hedge said he has mentioned in the report about "possible threat" to Lokayukta (five) officials who were involved in the enquiry. I have not said that there is already a threat ,as I said yesterday, I don't believe the government will take action", Hegde. He added "They (the State government) took the first report but did not take action”

Expanding the National Rural Livelihoods Project To develop rural India

Fashionclutch: Expanding the National Rural Livelihoods Project To develop the condition of rural area. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh brought the idea of private sector and corporate world to save and generate revenue with the help of World Bank in the country in 1991.

Dr Manmohan singh is an economist but on his economics bought only benefit for corporate world. He bought the plan of private sector because public sector had failed to generate revenue for the country. he planned to bring transparency in public sector as well as open door to build private sector and offer to outsource their own product. Now public sector also stuck in scams. The recent scams in India have opened up a new debate over the loopholes in private sector and constitution. Over the past year the Common Wealth Games, 2 G spectrum cases are all cases of how corruption has seeped the innards of our society.

But Indian framers always stay away from Dr Manmohan economics. The condition of framer in Buldelkand, Vidarbha, Oddisha and now UP framers is suffering from land acquisition act. There is no such rule to protect the Indian framer, who lives in rural area. Around 86 percent citizen lives below the poverty line (BPL), government is running many schemes for them to but they are not beneficiary from them.

The number of framers who have committed suicide in rural area after 1997 is closed to 190,543. According to the facts two- thirds of these suicides have occurred in five states.

In Maharashtra at Vidarbha, Uttar Pradesh at Buldelkand, Oddisha, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh. The rate at which framers are committing suicide about a third of the country's population but two thirds of framers committed suicides.

Now government is planning to expand the National Rural Livelihoods project Under National Rural Livelihoods Mission to provide more facility to poor framers or BPL card holders though out the scheme. It would be entering into an agreement with the World Bank for soft loan worth US$1 billion to implement the National Rural Livelihoods Project under National Rural Livelihood Mission.

It is being implemented in 28 states and 7 union territories in India. NRLM project is one of the largest poverty reduction initiatives aimed at reaching out to 350 million people with millennium goal. Based on the past experience in several states, NLRP is expected to have a transformational social impact, supporting India's efforts to achieve the millennium development goals (MDG) on nutrition, gender and poverty.

The distribution of project funds among the states level would be divided on the share of rural BPL population in the total states. It directly connects almost a quarter of India's population.

It will be able to bring to bear voice and answerability over providers of educational, health, nutritional and financial services generate employment and investment in one of the world’s largest poverty reduction initiatives would help in setting up of an institutional platform by mobilizing rural poor, particularly women, into robust grassroots institutions of their own.

Indira Awaas Yojana and other development scheme already failed to reach in rural area of India. These schemes will assist in professionalization and industrialization of the overall program management of NRLM by shifting the focus of expenditure, based allocation, to provide quality and technical assistance and simple finance scheme. It will also generate revenue in developing a wider base of implementing partnerships with corporate, private sector, civil society, and other development institutions to build up fair structure, innovations, services, and delivery mechanisms.

It would be good news for Indian framers, in this scheme government will invest intensively in support implementation of NRLM in 100 districts and 400 blocks of 12 high poverty states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu), accounting for 85 percent of the rural poor in the country. The aim is to create best practice sites and to develop them as local immersion locations and generate critical pool of social capital for catalyzing social mobilization of the poor and building quality institutions of the poor.

73 lakh tons of food grains storage capacity approved under the PEG Scheme.

Fashionclutch: The Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Mr. Thomas sought to temper his warning with the assurance if a state government required more food grains it would be allocated under various schemes for BPL card holder. He strongly asked to sates to take measures to bring down damage of food gains during procurement, storage and transportation service.


The Minister pointed out that of the 73 lakh tons of food grains storage capacity approved under the Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee Scheme (PEG), 63 lakh tones worth of capacity has been sanctioned in the eight States. Punjab and Andhra Pradesh were asked to expedite the creation of extra storage capacity for 15.2 million tons of food grains.

The damage to food grains had come down from 2.5 per cent in 2007-08 to 0.07 per cent this year. The instructions have been given to FCI for introducing mechanization of food grains handling and optimum utilization of existing storage space in the states. Besides this, FCI has been directed to hire as much as possible additional space from private sources to supplement its efforts for proper storage of food grains.

At present the government has a storage capacity of 62.23 million tons of food grains as against burgeoning stocks at 65 million tones. As a result, a significant quantity is stored in the open.

The Empowered Group of Ministers had postponed a decision on the proposal to export 2 million tons of wheat “as international price of the commodity has dipped” said by Mr. Thomas.

Recently, the Centre government had allocated additional quantity of 50 lakh tons of food grain for below poverty line families and another 50 lakh tons for above poverty line families. Allocation of further fifty lakh tones for 150 poorer districts is also being worked out.

The government is planning to setup new additional covered storage capacity of more than 152 lakh across 19 states. The State Governments have also been requested to introduce a scheme for their own storage needs through PPP model.

The government is also taking all necessary steps to ensure that stocks are safely kept and proper quality control measures are taken for the same. During the meeting, these efforts will be reviewed further.