-MainstreamWeekly.net Chinese Import have thrown a spanner in the wheel of India’s economic progress per se and industrial manufacturing in particular. The Chinese Import is so hard hitting on Indian industry that many manufacturers have become traders. The impact of Chinese goods has been such that India is threatened to become a country of Importers and traders with domestic factories either cutting down production or shutting down completely...The country can...
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6 ex-bureaucrats move SC seeking judicial probe into Modi Govt’s ‘gross mismanagement’ of COVID-19, lockdown
-National Herald The plea says the Centre failed to “undertake timely and effective measures for containing transmission of disease within India” despite being notified about the same by WHO in January, 2020. Six retired bureaucrats have moved the Supreme Court seeking an independent inquiry by a Commission appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, into the Central Government's "gross mismanagement" of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, legal news website LiveLaw.in has...
More »Tabling of CAG reports in Parliament is frequently being delayed, helping government evade scrutiny -Himanshu Upadhyaya and Abhishek Punetha
-Scroll.in In 2018, the last year of Modi’s first term, the presentation of eight of the 17 audit reports was delayed by more than 90 days. In India’s parliamentary accountability system, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India plays an Important role. However, while the general public has great faith in the CAG’s role as a watchdog of the state exchequer, ruling governments frequently delay audit reports from being presented in parliament...
More »MIS data on person-days of work demanded must be made available along with person-days of employment provided under MGNREGA, ask social activists
-First MGNREGA tracker by Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG), released on 13th July, 2020 A note has been prepared by the Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) that brings to you the latest developments, updates, and figures on the implementation of MGNREGA across the country till 9th July, 2020. Given the significant role that MGNREGA is playing in the lives and livelihoods of rural workers, PAEG intends to keep a...
More »Time to act on MGNREGA -Ankita Aggarwal and Anmol Somanchi
-The Indian Express Covid-related crisis offers NDA government opportunity to increase work days, entitlements under the employment guarantee scheme. In a recent article (‘Credit where it isn’t due’, IE, June 10), Union Minister for Rural Development Narendra Singh Tomar described the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as a “failing scheme” before 2014. MGNREGA under the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was by no means perfect, but when the National...
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