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Centre wants to create framework for PPP in farm sector: Agriculture Secy -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Manoj Sinha said work on the framework is ongoing, private players are encouraged to share their inputs With a focus on securing more investments and expertise from the private players in the agriculture sector, the government is keen to create a formal comprehensive framework for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the sector, a senior government official said. Speaking at an event organised by industry body Ficci on the issue, Agriculture Secretary...
More »‘A breach was made, no communal angle’ — what Assam probe into Cachar floods has revealed so far -Angana Chakrabarti
-ThePrint.in On 19 June, Silchar town — the district headquarters of Cachar district — was inundated as water from the Barak river entered the town. Guwahati: Police in Assam have ruled out a communal angle in the Barak embankment breach, which led to floods in the Cachar district, and urged people and the media to refrain from spreading rumours. “There is no communal angle in this event. My appeal to various social media...
More »Over 95 per cent of unskilled workers ‘underpaid’ in Delhi -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph The survey questioned 1,076 respondents including domestic, construction and industrial workers and security guards about their wages, work conditions and social security Over 95 per cent of unskilled workers in Delhi are denied the minimum wage notified by the state government, a survey released on Monday by a civil society organisation has found. The survey, “Accessing minimum wages: Evidence from Delhi”, conducted by the Working People’s Coalition (WPC), found that about...
More »Anganwadi Federation Urges Centre and States to Implement SC Ruling on Gratuity -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in In a convention held at BTR Bhawan in the national capital, the CITU-backed federation also gave a call for a four-day ‘Mahapadav’ from July 26 in New Delhi. New Delhi: Demanding that the central and the state governments provide gratuity, a basic social security measure, to all the anganwadi caregivers in the country, the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) on Saturday called for a four-day ‘Mahapadav’ from...
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