-The New Indian Express The CM said his govT decided to waive off loans amounting to Rs 520 crores with respect to the principal amount against their cooperative loans as of July 31, 2017. CHANDIGARH: Asserting his continued support to the farmers agitating against the three farm laws, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday launched a Rs 520 crore debt relief scheme for 2.85 lakh farm labourers and landless farmers....
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Ranchi shows how India’s biggest cycling lessons lie in its smaller cities -Swarna Dutt & Azra Khan
-Scroll.in About 50% of the households in the city owned a bicycle in 2011, as per the census data. It is a common sight to see cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles jostling for space on the narrow streets of small Indian cities. While there is a popular notion that these cities are trying to replicate the mobility pattern of bigger cities, data tells a different story. While global cities are aiming to increase cycle...
More »India urgently needs a caste census – so why isn't the Modi government allowing one? -Shoaib Daniyal
-Scroll.in India runs massive policy programs based on caste. Yet refuses to collect data on them. This paradox means the government is working blind. On July 20, the Modi government told Parliament that it had decided to not conduct a caste census. The only caste-wise data the next census would collate would be on Dalits and Adivasis, the same as every census in independent India’s history. India’s largest caste bloc – the...
More »Civil Society Groups Write to President Opposing Population Control Bill
-TheCitizen.in There is no evidence of a population explosion in either India or Uttar Pradesh Women’s groups, health experts and civil society groups have written to the President of India raising concerns and opposing the Draft Uttar Pradesh Population Control Bill 2021. The bill’s main objective is to implement a two-child norm by punishing adults with more than two children, and rewarding those who comply. Following in the steps of BJP-governed Assam, the disincentives...
More »Maharashtra govt to move resolution rejecting Centre's farm laws in monsoon session: Report
-PTI/ Livemint.com The council of ministers also gave its nod to a resolution requesting the Centre to decide about restoration of the quota for Marathas in government jobs and education Mumbai: Rejection of the three Central agriculture laws is one of the three resolutions approved by the Maharashtra cabinet on Sunday which will be moved in the monsoon session of the state legislature beginning Monday, sources said. The council of ministers also gave...
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