-The Telegraph Mamata Banerjee today sprayed a cocktail of petrol price and other grievances on the Centre, warning that the Trinamul Congress could pull out of the UPA government if it “did not think about the masses” and listen to her party. Oil firms said they had little option but to roll back the price increase if the Centre issued such a directive. However, till late this evening, the Prime Minister appeared...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 1029
Repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act
-The Economic Times Home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has said that the Cabinet last year decided to review the implementation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir. This brings his views in line with those of J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah, who has recently demanded the scrapping of the Act from parts of the state. We welcome these views and strongly suggest the repeal of the Act. Since...
More »4% of govt purchases will have to be from dalit, tribal-run firms by Subodh Ghildiyal
Ahead of its battle with dalit czarina Mayawati, the Congress-led Centre has made it mandatory for all central bodies to make at least 4% of their annual purchases from small scale industries owned by dalits and tribals. The decision, a leg up for developing entrepreneurship among SCs/STs, came as part of the new public procurement policy cleared by the Union Cabinet on Tuesday which mandates Union ministries/PSUs to make 20% of...
More »Looking for the Poor
-EPW The media noise shed little light on the important issues involved in deciding the coverage of welfare programmes. The context for the Planning Commission’s (PC) affidavit on the official poverty line was the deliberation in the Supreme Court on how many people could be covered by the public distribution system (PDS). But while the sound and fury over the poverty line – Rs 32 per capita per day in the urban...
More »Pattas for Saranda villagers by month-end by Pheroze L Vincent
Jharkhand and the Centre today gave final shape to a plan that aims to improve the lives of 36,000 people living in Saranda forest. At a high-level meeting in Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh’s office, chief minister Arjun Munda discussed a time-bound strategy to implement the Saranda Action Plan. Ramesh said by November 10, Jharkhand would start appointing rozgar sevaks (employment facilitators) for each of the 56 villages in the area....
More »
