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Analysis of articles

Analysis of articles. A further attack on the PDS Madhura Swaminathan. Understanding the jargon Liberalisation – Orthodox - GPD – Difference between the needy and income poor? PDS - APL - BPL – TPDS -. Bias.  The Paper’s bias The writer’s bias What is written – deeper meaning

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Analysis of articles

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  1. Analysis of articles

  2. A further attack on the PDSMadhuraSwaminathan Understanding the jargon • Liberalisation – • Orthodox - • GPD – • Difference between the needy and income poor? • PDS - • APL - • BPL – • TPDS -

  3. Bias •  The Paper’s bias • The writer’s bias • What is written – deeper meaning ‘Rather than using the abundance of grain as an opportunity to raise consumption among the people, the government has declared its intention to sell its stocks in foreign markets at subsidised prices. Foreign buyers of Indian rice and wheat will only have to pay the rates charged to "below-poverty-line" (BPL) consumers in India.’ ‘The most persuasive argument to the court is that the right to food is directly related to the constitutional guarantee of a right to life’

  4. Purpose • Informative or persuasive? ‘These stocks are enough to provide 70 kg a person, that is, about one-half an individual's annual cereal requirement, to more than 600 million people.’ ‘Finally, India has to realise that any global climate policy must have solid domestic foundations, reflecting the concerns of poor people, including farmers and fishermen – in India as elsewhere.’

  5. Contention? ‘The scheme offers 25 kg of grain to each of the poorest 10 million families in the country … the TPDS also altered the principle of entitlements from a per capita norm to a family norm, with BPL households entitled to a uniform 10 kg of grain irrespective of family size and need. To put this in perspective, the annual level of cereal intake recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is 135 kg a person (or 11.25 kg a month). For a five-member family, the new ration scale, of about 2 kg a person a month, provides less than 18 per cent of the recommended intake.’ ‘If food security is about having certainty about the future, the common goal must also be growth in agriculture and food security that gives the same rights on the land to men and women farmers.’

  6. Differences? • Voice? • Style? • Readers? • Political Climate at time of publishing?

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