-The Hindu Kolkata: After the Calcutta High Court struck down the State Government's Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, the case is now in the Supreme Court. After her meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, noted social activist Medha Patkar said on Friday that Tata Motors' authorities should be more liberal in the issue of returning the land of farmers in Singur. The meeting took place at the State secretariat, Nabanna. After...
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Soon, attendance of govt staff to be tracked online -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The Modi government had recently directed all central government offices to introduce Aadhaar-based biometric attendance systems. In what could be a revolutionary step towards monitoring and tracking the work of government officials, the NDA government has launched an "attendance website" to serve as a centralised database for all central government employees. Though the website, attendance.gov.in, is still in the process of being developed, officials said it is expected to be...
More »Teachers oppose midday meal status through SMS
-MattersIndia.com Ludhiana (Punjab): Teachers of government schools in Ludhiana district are opposing the newly introduced system of updating daily attendance and status of midday meal served to students through short message service (SMS) to the district administration. After Roopnagar district, the system was replicated in Ludhiana on the orders of Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal. But various teachers' unions have strongly opposed it and decided to take up the matter with Education Minister...
More »India's estimated milk demand to be about 155 mn tonnes by 2016-17: NDDB chairman
-The Business Standard Says need to increase the annual incremental milk production from 4 million tonnes per year to 7.8 million tonnes India's estimated demand for milk is likely to be about 155 million tonnes by 2016-17 and around 200 million tonnes in 2021-22, said chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) at the two-day seminar-cum-workshop on ‘Convergence of Productivity Enhancement Activities to Meet Future Demand of Milk and Milk Products'. "The country's...
More »Ashok Gulati, former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, and at present chair professor agriculture, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, speaks with Sandip Das
-The Financial Express From allocating extra foodgrains to states as a means to fight the price rise to setting up a high-level committee to recommend measures for restructuring the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the government has taken various steps for cutting down food subsidy and curbing further spike in agricultural commodity prices. From allocating extra foodgrains to states as a means to fight the price rise to setting up a high-level...
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