-NDTV.com Billed as a "dedicated fund with the primary objective of dealing with any kind of emergency...", PM CARES spent ₹ 3,976 crore in the first year of its operation New Delhi: 64 per cent of the Rs.10,990 crore collected by the PM CARES Fund between March 27, 2020, and March 31, 2021, remained unused as of the latter date, according to data accessed by NDTV. As of March 2021, the PM CARES...
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Uttarakhand: Since 2017, Drastic Drop In Scholarships Availed by Minority Students
-TheWire.in The budget for the scheme – which reduced from Rs 3 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 2 lakh in 2020-21 – reflected this decline in students availing of the scholarship. New Delhi: The number of students from minority communities availing the pre-matric scholarship scheme in Uttarakhand dropped by over 100 times between 2017-18 and 2020-21, revealed an RTI filed by the Times of India. The scheme, which is run by the minority...
More »Supreme Court asks states, UTs to clear COVID relief claims in 10 days
-The New Indian Express The Supreme Court directed all states and Union Territories to appoint dedicated nodal officer to coordinate with the member secretary of the SLSA. NEW Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed all states and Union Territories to appoint dedicated nodal officer to coordinate with the member secretary of the State Legal Service Authority (SLSA) to facilitate payment of ex gratia compensation to kin of Covid victims. It also directed...
More »'Official Statistics on COVID-19 Not True': SC Directs Quick Payment of Ex-Gratia
-TheWire.in A bench comprising Justices M.R. Shah and B.V. Nagarathna said that state governments cannot say that fraudulent claims are being made by families of COVID-19 victims. New Delhi: The Supreme Court highlighted that official statistics on COVID-19 deaths, released by states, were “not true” and directed state governments to pay compensation to relatives of deceased people who have applied without rejecting the claims on technical grounds. “Official statistics are not true on...
More »CPI(M) MP Kareem Moves Private Member’s Bill to Repeal Four Labour Codes -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Speaking to NewsClick in a telephone interview on Friday, the Rajya Sabha leader lamented that the Centre has “not accepted even a single recommendation” that was made to it by Standing Committee on Labour in its different reports over the Labour Codes. New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP Elamaram Kareem on Friday introduced a Private Member’s Bill that seeks to repeal the contentious four Labour Codes which...
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