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Lo and behold! Maharashtra's Rs 4,845 crore irrigation project without water -Yogesh Pawar

-DNA Mumbai: What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of an irrigation project? Water? Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case with the Union Union Ministry for Forests, Environment & Climate Change (MoEF). How else would it have cleared the the Rs 4,845 crore, 23.66 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) Krishna Marathwada Lift Irrigation Scheme (KMLIS) without water availability? The environmental clearance given on 24th June...

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Cabinet recommends re-promulgation of land ordinance

-ANI/ The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Saturday recommended re-promulgation of the controversial Land Acquisition Ordinance. The land ordinance will be issued for the third time. The Ordinance was promulgated for the first time in December last year to amend the 2013 Act. Despite being passed in Lok Sabha, the government did not take it to Rajya Sabha as it lacked numbers there. The Ordinance was re-promulgated in March...

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Bengal’s employment rate improving, says report

-The Hindu Kolkata: At a time when the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government has a strained relationship with the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre, a report by the Labour Bureau of India suggested that Bengal's employment rate was on the rise. According to the TMC's official website, the fourth Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey Report revealed that the unemployment rate in 2014 fell to 52 from 74 in 2012-13, the lowest since the...

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Scheming against the poor -TK Rajalakshmi

-Frontline The Left and other national parties protest against the NDA government's attempts to dilute the MGNREGS by limiting its budget and reducing its reach. IN a rare show of solidarity, representatives of several political parties took issue with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on its controversial proposal to restructure the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The opposition, which was initially confined to the...

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Labour Amendment Bill Gets Clearance

-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: Taking a step towards initiating labour reforms, the BJP Government on Friday managed to get the Labour Amendment Bill passed in the Lok Sabha, thus paving a way for it to become a law. The Bill has already been passed by the Upper House. The Labour Law (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by certain Establishments) Amendment Bill, 2011, was passed in the Lok Sabha...

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