-TheWire.in The Agriculture Insurance Company of India returned farmers' premiums after one year, claiming that details had not been provided in "soft copy". The bank, however, has not credited the refund into farmers' accounts. Satlana (Jodhpur, Rajasthan): Thousands of farmers in the Satlana gram panchayat of Rajasthan’s Jodhpur, insured under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), have been denied insurance claims for two crop seasons – kharif 2016 and kharif 2017. The...
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Uttar Pradesh tops chart in PDS corruption, Bihar comes second
-IANS * As many as 807 complaints of corruption in the public distribution system (PDS) were received across the country till October 31, 2019 * Delhi ranks third in corruption cases in PDS with 78 complaints been received NEW DELHI: As many as 807 complaints of corruption in the public distribution system (PDS) were received across the country till October 31, 2019Z, of which Uttar Pradesh reported maximum number of complaints, Union Minister...
More »Assam govt rejects present NRC, wants to be part of national NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma -Hemanta Kumar Nath
-India Today Assam Finance Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said in Guwahati that the present NRC process in Assam should be scrapped and Assam wants to be a part of the national NRC process. Guwahati: Assam government rejected the present National Register of Citizens (NRC) wanting it to be part of a national NRC. Rejecting the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on August 31, the Assam government welcomed...
More »Why the picture on poverty is incomplete -Himanshu
-Livemint.com * Leaked official data shows poverty is rising, but we won’t get a confirmation till at least 2023. That’s unfortunate * Neither has the government released the report of an expert panel, nor provided any evidence about the nature and extent of divergence with other administrative data On Friday, the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (Mospi) announced that the data and reports of the 75th round of the National Statistical Office...
More »Conduct social audit of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, group of ex-bureaucrats urges Election Commission
-Scroll.in They wrote a letter to the polling body, pointing out that the doubts about voting machines used in the elections were ‘yet to be resolved satisfactorily’. A group of former bureaucrats has written to the Election Commission of India, asking for a social audit of the last General Elections in order to establish its integrity and fairness. In a letter dated November 19, they cited various media reports to say that unauthorised...
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