-OutlookIndia.com The PRIncipal economic advisor is confident of achieving GDP growth promised by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the budget but is also cautious that some external factors can derail the projections Automobiles and two-wheelers are seeing muted sales not because of a low-demand situation afflicting the sector, but because there is a supply-side issue about chips, PRIncipal economic advisor to the government Sanjeev Sanyal told Outlook Business. He also said that...
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One-third of Rs.10,990 crore in PM CARES fund spent: ‘20-’21 audit -PRIscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu ₹3,976 crore spent during 2020-21; ₹100 cr promised for vaccine development not allotted The PM CARES Fund collected ₹10,990 crore since its inception in March 2020 until March 2021. It spent ₹3,976 crore during the 2020-21 financial year, according to the audited financial statement posted on its website. As on March 31, 2021, the Fund had an unspent balance of ₹7,044 crore. The Fund was set up to deal with “any...
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-NDTV.com Billed as a "dedicated fund with the PRImary objective of dealing with any kind of emergency...", PM CARES spent ₹ 3,976 crore in the first year of its operation New Delhi: 64 per cent of the Rs.10,990 crore collected by the PM CARES Fund between March 27, 2020, and March 31, 2021, remained unused as of the latter date, according to data accessed by NDTV. As of March 2021, the PM CARES...
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-TheWire.in Both factory workers and owners are feeling the brunt of first demonetisation and then the COVID-19 lockdowns, and believe the government is ignoring them. Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): Tahir Khan is a 35-year-old lock worker in Aligarh. He is among the thousands of workers bearing the brunt of COVID-19 lockdowns and what they call government apathy towards workers. He is currently employed under Saud Aijaz, whose family has been running a small-scale lock...
More »Activists approach minister about alleged violation of RTE Act -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph The percentage of vacant seats across 24 districts in Jharkhand is very high and the situation being worse in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Seraikela-Kharsawan: Banna Jamshedpur: Crusaders of Right to Education campaign have approached state education minister Jagarnath Mahato about the alleged violation of RTE Act provisions by unaided PRIvate schools and to ensure their complete implementation in the next academic session (2022-23). “Recent surveys in Jharkhand have presented some troubling ground...
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