-CaravanMagazine.in In December 2019, M Venkaiah Naidu, the vice president, on behalf of the union ministry of social justice and empowerment, presented the Uttar Pradesh government the National Award of Excellence for doing a “commendable” job in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. The state received a total of three awards for doing “excellent” work for people with disabilities. In contrast, the response to a right to information application...
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Rajasthan: Congress and BJP Join Hands to Scuttle the Rise of Bharatiya Tribal Party -Shruti Jain
-TheWire.in In a recent election to the post of the zila pramukh, the Congress thwarted the election of the BTP candidate and instead extended support to the BJP candidate. Jaipur: The recent Panchayat and Zila Parishad polls in Rajasthan have laid bare the desperation with which the Congress and the BJP have tried to thwart tribal movement in the state. The two national rival parties have extended support to each other to ensure...
More »How do Indian states handle cancer screening among women? NFHS-5 data reveals -Gaurav Suresh Gunnal, Shristi Guha and Akhil PM
-Down to Earth Cervical, oral and breast cancers are prominent among women. In round 1 of NFHS-5, women aged between 30 and 49 years were asked whether they were diagnosed with any of these cancers Cancer is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, deaths caused by cancer will increase by 45 per cent between 2008 and 2030. Cervical cancer, oral cancer and breast cancer...
More »Get food to worksites, says Aajeevika in Ahmedabad
-Civil Society News When the lockdown began to ease in June, migrant workers who had left Ahmedabad for their villages started returning to the city in the hope of finding some employment. It hasn’t been easy. Industrial areas haven’t opened up fully and employers are going slow on taking on workers. Sunk in debt with insecure work, hunger now stalks migrant workers. Entire families have been living out in the open on worksites....
More »Jharkhand: Wages Unpaid for 9 Months, 250 Pakur Forest Workers Move HC
-TheWire.in In spite of having been crippled by a lack of funds to his department, forest range officer Anil Kumar Singh had been paying labourers out of his own pocket. New Delhi: Nearly 250 labourers who worked in a range of the Pakur Forest Division in Jharkhand have filed a public interest litigation in the Jharkhand high court, hoping to be paid wages due for the past nine months, Indian Express has...
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