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Abstract
Title
Media clippings - Development and Public Welfare (1995-1997)
Identifier
MS-032-1-1-1-8
Digital Object URI
Description
Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai on issues of development and public welfare, such as starvation in drought-stricken Orissa; loss of land in Majuli and the workings of the NGO AVARD; the launch of an AIDS counselling hotline; health-care and child-care for the poor and working mothers in the unorganised sector, in tribal areas and deprecation of profit-sharing in hospitals; vehicular pollution and indoor pollution due to low-grade fuels; the mid-day meal scheme; UNDP sectoral assistance; tribal rights, justice for Dalit women survivors of sexual violence; the presumption of Naxalism in cases of dissent and the Adivasi Mukti Sanghatan (AMS); population control measures; poverty and food, water and land deficits and the need for planners to look beyond statistics; malarial drugs; and the inefficiencies of commissions. Also incudes an interview with A.T. Ariyaratne, recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award for 1996.
Date(s)
1995 - 1997
Collection
Usha Rai Papers
Series
Series 1: Media clippings -- Writings by Usha Rai
Sub-Series
Sub-Series 1: Media clippings - English
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