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SC warning on disability access

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned it would summon chief secretaries of states and officials concerned of the central government if they didn't comply with its December 15 directives to provide adequate facilities at public places for the differently abled. "We have not said anything new in our verdict (December 2017). It was your (the Centre's) law and we just asked you to comply with it. We are...

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Ramesh Chand, member, NITI Aayog, interviewed by Seetha (Firstpost.com)

-Firstpost.com The recent increases in minimum support prices have attracted two criticisms from two opposite sides. One is that this is less than what farmers deserve, the second is that this is populist and ignores larger macro side effects. The increase in fair remunerative price for sugarcane has also been criticised for not adequately addressing the woes of the sugar sector. Ramesh Chand, member, agriculture, NITI Aayog talks to Firstpost on...

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One crore jobs in last year: Here is how PM Modi built his case during speech in Lok Sabha

-The Indian Express To lend weight to his argument, he referred to employment figures available in the system including EPF, NPS, formal and informal sector. He talked about job growth and employment towards the end of his speech. New Delhi: Rejecting criticism that the government failed to create enough jobs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said over one crore jobs were created in the country over the past one year. The...

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The limits of MSP -Ashok Gulati & Tirtha Chatterjee

-The Indian Express Instead of fiddling with procurement prices, government must devise an income policy for farmers. Speaking at the 37th foundation day celebrations of the NABARD, Arun Jaitley gave food for thought to the audience when he said, “If there is any area in the economy where we can give an example to the world and to ourselves of cooperative federalism, it is the agriculture sector. It can benefit people more...

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New EPF enrolment during Sep., 2017 to Apr., 2018 confined to a few industries & states, indicates data

  A document of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) dated 25th June, 2018 says that the number of members subscribing to the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) scheme gives one an idea of the level of employment in the formal sector viz. mostly employment in establishments employing 20 or more persons (though EPF is applicable for certain organisations, which employ less than 20 persons, subject to certain conditions and...

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