-The Hindu Former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has written to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, following the removal of a chapter on the Right to Information Act from school text books. In a letter dated June 24, Mr. Habibullah, chairperson of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, cited Section 26 of the RTI Act to point out that the law places a statutory duty on State governments to educate the citizenry, particularly...
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Server glitch hits distribution of food grains -PJ Joychen
-The Times of India Jaipur: Frequent snags in the server of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) have led to disruption in the distribution of food grains through the fair price shops in Rajasthan resulting in many violent incidents in the state. The state government has sought the help of the Union food ministry to take up the matter with UIDAI. Dr Subodh Agarwal, principal secretary, food and consumer affairs of...
More »Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana data till april 25: Of 17.58 lakh candidates skilled, 81,978 get placed -Aanchal Magazine & Anil Sasi
-The Indian Express Ministry cites ‘incomplete data’ as primary reason for low placement numbers. “Kaushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat” — it’s with this slogan that the government had launched its ambitious Skill India Mission in July last year, but the transformation from Kaushal to Kushal seems to be faltering at the last mile. While the government claimed to have trained twenty lakh people under its flagship Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), which works...
More »Demand for Bt cotton seeds sharply down -Shishir Arya
-The Times of India Nagpur: There has been a major dip in the demand for genetically modified Bt cotton seeds this kharif season. The seeds that were introduced by the US multinational Monsanto in 2002 have become mainstay of cotton farming since then. This year, there has been a sharp increase in use of local varieties of cotton seeds instead of Bt in the northern states. The area seems to have...
More »MGNREGA in Drought-Hit States: Work demand rises, but majority wait for additional days -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express Across the country, wage employment generated under the scheme has gone up from 32 crore person-days in April - May 2015 to 51 crore person-days in the corresponding months of 2016. Signalling an increase in uptake of MGNREGA work on the ground owing to drought as well as the slow revival of the scheme itself, the person-days generated in the first two months of the financial year has gone...
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