-The Hindu It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, rural Development Secretary says. The decision to split MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Act) wage payments by caste categories was done on the advice of the Finance Ministry in order to assess and highlight the benefits flowing from budgetary outlay towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, rural Development Secretary N.N. Sinha told The Hindu on Thursday. He said this should...
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Centre directs states/UTs to provide ration cards to most vulnerable and poor under NFSA
-PTI/ Firstpost.com Under the National Food Security Act, 81 crore ration card holders are each entitled to 5 kg of wheat and rice every month at a subsidised rate of Rs 2 to 3 per kg New Delhi: The Centre has issued an advisory to all states and UTs to identify and issue ration cards to the most vulnerable and economically weaker sections of society to ensure their coverage under the National...
More »Modi government spent Rs 2,250 crore on buying ventilators. Why aren’t they working? -Arunabh Saikia
-ThePrint.in A flawed procurement process has resulted in hospitals getting cheap ventilators, many of which are unusable, say doctors even in BJP-ruled states. Maharashtra was witnessing an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths when 150 ventilators arrived at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Aurangabad in the third week of April. The Union health ministry had sent them. The hospital further distributed the machines to other district and private hospitals in...
More »Centre tells States to split rural jobs scheme wages into separate categories for SCs, STs, others -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu It will complicate payment system, may lead to a reduction in funding, say experts. The Centre has asked the States to split wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme into separate categories for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and others from this financial year. Workers’ rights advocates said this will unnecessarily complicate the payment system, and expressed fears that it may lead to a reduction...
More »Kaatu Yaanam to Ratha Sali: TN foundation conserves 156 varieties of native paddy species -Anjana Shekar
-TheNewsMinute.com Founded by Ananthan Krishnan, Himakiran and Parthasarathy VM, all of them organic farmers, the main aim of the Thondaimandalam Foundation is to focus on sustainable rural livelihoods. They say if an elephant were to enter a harvest-ready kaatu yanam (180-day crop) rice field, no one would know. For the sea of paddy, which would stand at least eight-feet tall, would completely hide the pachyderm. S Ganapathi Tamizhselvan, who is a paddy...
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