-The Hindu On December 23, 2022, the Union government announced that it would discontinue the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) from January 1, 2023. Withdrawing the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), under which an extra 5 kg of free foodgrains was provided to every RATion card holder in addition to the entitlement under the National Food Security Act, is a regressive step and will force poor families to...
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Core sector output rises by 5.4% in November vs 3.2% YoY: Govt data
-PTI/ Business Standard Production of eight infrastructure sectors like coal, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity increased by 5.4% in Nov against a 3.2% growth in the same month last year, according to official data Production of eight infrastructure sectors increased by 5.4 per cent in November against a 3.2 per cent growth in the same month last year on a better show by coal, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity segments, according to...
More »TN plans unique number for each state resident -Divya Chandrababu
-Hindustan Times Chief minister M K Stalin had during the assembly sessions spoken of data-centric governance and the TNeGA department is responsible for driving all technology initiatives for the state Government. The data would be available in English and Tamil Chennai: The Tamil Nadu e-governance agency (TNeGA) conducted a pre-bid meeting on Thursday as the state government is looking to build tools to create a unique individual number for each resident of...
More »The importance of affordable healthcare for all and other key lessons from the pandemic -Chapal Mehra & Lancelot Pinto
-Scroll.in It is important to learn from the Covid-19 crisis and transform policies and systems. Or we are destined to repeat our mistakes? Humans tend to limit memories of horrors faced in the past as a coping mechanism. In our hurry to return to normalcy, as the world and India learns to live with Covid-19, we should not forget the lessons this crisis taught us. The most important of these is the...
More »India must build awareness on population control -Aryan Pandey and Sanjay Kumar
-The Hindu It is clear that India does not need a law for forced population control Early in December, two Members of Parliament of the BhaRATiya Janata Party, Ravi Kishan and Nishikant Dubey, introduced in the Lok Sabha a private members’ Bill aimed at population control in India. Stating that population rise is the most significant reason for India’s slow RATe of development, the Bill argues for an immediate need for population...
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