-Business Standard Roughly 20% of ST households own a television, compared with 39% of SC households Scheduled caste (SC) households are materially better off than scheduled tribe (ST) households, according to the latest census data on asset ownership. Data released on Wednesday showed 38.5 per cent of ST households owned none of the eight assets on which information was collected in 2011, while only 22.6 per cent of SC households owned none...
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It’s wrong to deny gas to the fertiliser sector -Uttam Gupta
-The Hindu Business Line And worse still, to favour urea producers over decontrolled fertiliser units in gas allocation, exacerbating the nutrient imbalance The manner in which gas is allocated within the fertiliser sector smacks of arbitrariness. The Centre gives a uniform subsidy to all manufacturers, including those of decontrolled complex fertilisers, under the Nutrient Based Scheme (NBS) . Why, then, does it use a different yardstick for allocation of gas to manufacturers of...
More »India walks to work: Census -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Over a fifth of non-agricultural workers in India commute to work on foot, followed by commutes by cycle, MoPed or motorcycle and bus, new data from the Census shows. Fewer than three per cent take cars or vans, and over half travel less than five kilometres. On Thursday, the office of the Registrar General of India released data on commutes for the 200 million working Indians who are neither...
More »93% Adults 'Voluntarily' Possess Aadhaar, Claims UIDAI
-Outlook Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) today said 93 per cent of adults in India voluntarily possess Aadhaar number as per a recent finding. "In a recent update, it is found that 93 per cent of the adult residents in India voluntarily possess Unique Identity – Aadhaar," UIDAI said in a press statement. In UIDAI assigned states/UTs, Aadhaar saturation among adult population is 98 per cent while in Registrar General of India...
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-The Hindu Business Line Crop insurance will make farming a safer vocation The plight of Punjab’s cotton farmers after a swarm of ‘whiteflies’ ravaged their crop is truly disquieting. In a knee-jerk response, Punjab has promised ₹640 crore for over two-third of the crop being destroyed, but on what basis, it is hard to tell. This highlights the absence of crop insurance in Punjab, as pointed out by a recent Crisil study....
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