Have we succeeded in eliminating extreme hunger and poverty?

World Food Day 2007 - 'Right to Food':

It has been found out that hunger is not caused merely by the fact of non-availability of food but, by and large the inability to purchase food due to poverty. 'Right to Food' has been recognised as a human right by the international community and renewed efforts are being made by Governments to encourage investments in agriculture in order to eradicate extreme poverty and resultant hunger.

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The political will to find a way

Railway, then and now:

Things changed very unfavourably for the railway in the post war era, with the expansion of the road network and the operations cost ever rising, the Railway's share both in the freight and the passenger started to decline. Yet then, the services offered by the Railway were commendable as it was financed by the Government.

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World Standard Day 2007:

Standards sine qua non for a dynamic economy

Standards and the citizen: Contribution to society :

Though most of us take standards for granted, a little-thought-of fact is that a world without standards will be dangerous and chaotic. A world without standards is unimaginable and in such a world seemingly ordinary tasks would be extremely dangerous.

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