-The Times of India CHENNAI: Is there a dress code to get an Aadhaar card? An incident on Thursday at an enrolment centre in Chennai shows that there indeed may be one, and that it smacks of moral policing. Lavanya Mohan tweeted that she was sent back by officials who refused to photograph her since she was not wearing a dupatta. "Waited for about an hour to get an Aadhaar card photo...
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Siddaramaiah to launch DBT in Tumkur district on Saturday-S Bhuvaneshwari
-The Hindu But, Aadhaar-LPG linkage is still tardy Tumkur: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will launch Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for LPG at the Birla Auditorium in Tumkur district on June 1, 2013. Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, district president of the Congress Shafi Ahmed said that Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M. Veerappa Moily, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G. Parameshwara, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Food and Civil Supplies Dinesh...
More »Fast-track BPL status for 4 million families in Maoist zone -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Four million households in Maoist-affected districts are likely to get BPL status without having to wait for another two years when the Socio-Economic Caste Census is expected to be completed. The list of BPL will be revised based on the findings of the census. The shortcut inclusion in the 82 Maoist-affected districts is aimed at making the poor, who fell between the cracks of the poverty...
More »Rural India in decline-Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
-Live Mint The varying demographic trends in modern India could create disagreements in the political system There were 180 million more Indians in 2011 than a decade ago. Around half this increase in population came from the villages and half from the cities. The urban population actually grew slightly more than the rural population, perhaps for the first time in Indian history. The big picture is generally known. It is in the...
More »Farmers' count increases in Madurai -J Arockiaraj
-The Times of India MADURAI: In what may come as a surprise package to the farming community, the number of farmers in Madurai district has increased marginally, even as there is a decline at the national level. In 2001, there were 3.1 lakh land holdings or farmers for a population of 25.78 lakh in the district. But now, the number has gone up to 3.28 lakh against a population of...
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