-TheCitizen.in There are no sweet moment for Sugarcare farm labourers “My body aches, my hands and legs hurt a lot, but I still have many trucks to load. If I delay it the workload will increase. I can eat only after the task is done,” said Sarika Laxman Chole, a 25-year-old labourer working on a sugarcane field at this village in Beed. She works from 8 am to midnight, to earn Rs 300-350...
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Sonia Gandhi tells Centre to ensure proper allocation of Budget for MGNREGA, payment of wages within 15 days of work
-The Tribune Poor workers cannot be punished by stopping the money, she says Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday urged the BJP-led Centre to ensure proper allocation of the Budget for MGNREGA and payment of wages within 15 days of work, saying “poor workers cannot be punished by stopping the money”. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour, Gandhi said, "The payment of wages should be ensured for labourers within 15 days...
More »Around 3,400 communal riots took place from 2016-2020: Centre -Malavika Murali
-Hindustan Times MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai said 857 communal or religious riot cases were registered in 2020, 438 in 2019, 512 in 2018, 723 in 2017 and 869 in 2016 NEW DELHI: The central government on Tuesday informed the Parliament that India witnessed 3,399 cases of communal or religious rioting during the period 2016-2020. MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai made the disclosure in response to a question posed by Congress MP Shashi...
More »Three years after plastic waste ban, Environment Ministry allows imported PET bottles for processsing -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Decision was taken after representations from industries which process waste that there was too little waste for them After banning the import of plastic waste in 2019, the Environment Ministry has permitted PET Bottles, as plastic waste, to be imported for processing. The decision to rollback the ban was taken last year after representations by several industries in the business of processing waste said there was too little waste available...
More »As told to Gujarat Vidhan Sabha: State’s donkeys, camels in peril -Rajat Ghai
-Down to Earth Chinese medicine responsible for decline in donkey population; lack of grazing areas and mechanisation responsible for camel’s decline The population of donkeys and camels in Gujarat has declined 71 per cent and nine per cent respectively, the state’s livestock minister told the legislative assembly recently. Gujarat’s mules and donkeys had declined to 11,291 in the 2019 Livestock Census, from 38,993 in 2012, Raghavji Patel told the assembly in an answer...
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