-The Hindu Mysore (Karnataka): The much-lauded biometric ration card system is believed to be fool proof and expected to bring the public distribution system (PDS) in step with the digital era. However, ironically, the feedback from the ground indicates that it is rejecting the poor and the impoverished it was intended to benefit. The biometric authentication system installed at the PDS outlets fails to establish the identity of many genuine beneficiaries, mostly...
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Ahead of elections, Centre goes soft on MPLAD rules -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times As the general election nears, the government has allowed Members of Parliament (MPs) more flexibility in utilising their local area development fund. They can now install solar lights at public places, build public infrastructure in cooperative societies and buy furniture for schools. Every parliamentarian gets Rs. 5 crore every year as Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Fund to carry out developmental works in his or her constituency....
More »7th AIIMS to come up in Sonia’s constituency -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The seventh AIIMS-like institute will come up at Rae Bareilly - Congress president Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency - soon. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced this on Thursday while addressing the convocation ceremony at AIIMS, Delhi. Azad said that land for the new AIIMS project has been acquired already. "We have acquired land for building AIIMS in Rae Bareilley and tendering process for construction is...
More »National Green Tribunal stays cutting of trees in Aravalli hills
-PTI NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has ordered an interim stay on cutting of trees in Manger village in Aravalli hills on a plea for withdrawing permission granted by authorities for non-forestry activities there. A bench headed by Justice S N Hussain issued notices and sought replies of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), Haryana government, directorate of town and country planning, Faridabad and the forest department of Haryana by...
More »Most migrants in Delhi still from UP, but Bihar’s share rising fast
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi has always been a melting pot - people from across the country come here to study or to work. But in the past decade there appears to have been a change in the composition of its population. Uttar Pradesh continues to be the state from which the largest share of migrants come to Delhi-about 47%, up from about 43% in 2001. But the biggest...
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