-The Hindu It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says. The decision to split MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) wage payments by caste categories was done on the advice of the Finance Ministry in order to assess and highlight the benefits flowing from budgetary outlay towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Rural Development Secretary N.N. Sinha told The Hindu on Thursday. He said this should...
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Centre directs states/UTs to provide RATion cards to most vulnerable and poor under NFSA
-PTI/ Firstpost.com Under the National Food Security Act, 81 crore RATion card holders are each entitled to 5 kg of wheat and rice every month at a subsidised RATe of Rs 2 to 3 per kg New Delhi: The Centre has issued an advisory to all states and UTs to identify and issue RATion cards to the most vulnerable and economically weaker sections of society to ensure their coverage under the National...
More »A far-reaching tax measure -Ipsita Agarwalla and Meyyappan Nagappan
-The Hindu The U.S. push for a global minimum corpoRATe tax may help India, but it can also cause international disagreements The Pillar Two proposal was the Organisation for Economic Co-opeRATion and Development’s (OECD) plan to plug the remaining Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) issues and provide jurisdictions the right to “tax back” where other jurisdictions have either not exercised their primary taxing right or have exercised it at low levels...
More »30% of RATion card holders yet to get PMGKAY benefit for May -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Centre urges States to issue more RATion cards to vulnerable. Almost a third of all RATion card holders are yet to get their free foodgrains allocation for May under the Centre’s COVID-19 relief scheme, according to the Food Ministry. At a press conference on Thursday, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey also said it was up to the States to take further action on providing RATions to migrants and others without RATion...
More »Kaatu Yaanam to RATha Sali: TN foundation conserves 156 varieties of native paddy species -Anjana Shekar
-TheNewsMinute.com Founded by Ananthan Krishnan, Himakiran and ParthasaRAThy VM, all of them organic farmers, the main aim of the Thondaimandalam Foundation is to focus on sustainable rural livelihoods. They say if an elephant were to enter a harvest-ready kaatu yanam (180-day crop) rice field, no one would know. For the sea of paddy, which would stand at least eight-feet tall, would completely hide the pachyderm. S Ganapathi Tamizhselvan, who is a paddy...
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