-The Assam Tribune GUWAHATI: The flood SITuation in the State continues to be grim with a population of nearly 28 lakh affected by the deluge in 26 districts. The number of villages/localities affected is 2,543. The death toll in the flood increased to 96 with three more fatalities reported from Morigaon, Kokrajhar and Barpeta districts. The flood waters have also inundated 1,22,573 hectares of cropland. A total of 50,136 flood-affected people are taking...
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MGNREGA: A welcome salve in pandemic times -Sarita Brara
-The Hindu Business Line In Himachal Pradesh, the scheme comes as a breather to those who lost their jobs Nand Lal was working in an electronics company at Parwanoo, an industrial town in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, when the first lockdown was announced, in March. He had no choice but to come back to Surah, his village in the Murhag panchayat of Mandi district. Since then, he has already worked for 56...
More »Madhya Pradesh govt’s employment initiative for migrant workers falls flat, private players show little interest -Ranjan
-Hindustan Times The state government launched ‘Rozgar Setu’ web portal on June 10 to bring the migrant labourers and employers/job providers on a common platform so that the latter could choose the workforce as per their requirement. Bhopal: Nearly 5 percent of 7.30 lakh migrant labourers have got jobs and the biggest employers of these 35,000 odd labourers are village panchayats, not the private sector, shows Madhya Pradesh government’s data. The state government...
More »24% of Rajya Sabha members face criminal cases
-The Hindu Association for Democratic Reforms analysis finds that 89% have declared assets estimated at over ₹1 crore. New Delhi: About a quarter of the SITting Rajya Sabha members have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to an analysis of their self-sworn affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) released on Wednesday. With three seats vacant and Kerala MP K.K. Ragesh’s affidavit being unavailable, the ADR report said an analysis of 229...
More »Satyagraha for access to online classes
-The Hindu 24 students in Attappady village couldn’t attend a single class yet PALAKKAD (Kerala): Twenty-four school students living in a remote village in Attappady staged a day-long hunger strike in front of their houses on Sunday as a last resort to grab the attention of the government to their plight. None of them have been able to attend a single class ever since schools in the State reopened in online mode on...
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