-PTI/ The New Indian Express While sitting MPs are entitled to use the railways' first class air-conditioned or executive class for free, their spouses too can avail free travel under certain conditions. NEW DELHI: Free train travels of sitting and former Lok Sabha members over the past five years have cost the exchequer Rs 62 crore, which included nearly Rs 2.5 crore in the pandemic-hit 2020-21, according to information revealed under the...
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Recent environment rules mirror controversial draft -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times EIA 2020 had received over two million objections, comments and suggestions to the draft. A total of 100 environmental groups, organisations and individuals. New Delhi: Although the environment impact assessment draft notification proposed by the government in 2020 (EIA 2020) that raised concerns from environmentalists has expired because it was not notified in time, experts caution that the authorities have introduced some of the contentious rules separately. EIA 2020 had received...
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-Down to Earth Cattle ranchers sold milch cows at throwaway prices after incurring losses of about Rs 3 lakh in 5 months Mangatram Aane from Lokra village in Haryana’s Gurugram district had hopes of good income when he left his job with Hero Honda 15 years ago and started dairy farming. Initially, he fetched a good money from dairy farming, then he became a veterinary doctor. He felt that dairy farming had...
More »Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?
On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...
More »Laws should be made after thorough debate and discussion: Lok Sabha Speaker
-The Hindu The primary responsibility of the legislature is to fulfil the aspirations of the people, and lawmakers should ensure that laws are enacted only after thorough debate and discussion, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Monday. Mr. Birla made these remarks while inaugurating the 8th India region conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at Assam Legislative Assembly. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha Harivansh,...
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