-The Times of India MUMBAI: Students making it to India's best public engineering colleges this session might have more to tackle than study pressure. Making for a sharp economic divide on campus, two large cohorts of students in the class of 2017 in the IITs are from the upper middle classes and from the lower income groups. This year, one out of every five students (over 20%) who qualified disclosed that the...
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Poor kids rarely get free treatment in private hospitals of Delhi: study -Jyotsna Singh
-Down to Earth Quota for free treatment of Economically Weaker Sections in private hospitals under-utilised; less than half of the children referred from government hospitals get treatment in these places Children from the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in Delhi are unable to avail treatment at private hospitals despite the fact that these hospitals have reserved beds and out-patient department facilities for people from EWS category. This is the finding of a survey conducted...
More »EC may allow freebies in manifestos if targeted at weaker sections -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Accepting the argument of political parties that poll promises or "freebies" are related to the Directive Principles of State Policy, the Election Commission is considering a pragmatic set of guidelines that would allow freebies as long as they are targeted at the economically and socially weaker sections, religious minorities, women and populations living in remote, border or insurgency/disaster-hit areas. Directive principles are broad policy guidelines considered...
More »No family can survive on Rs 11,000 a year: HC -P Vasanth Kumar
-The Times of India BANGALORE: The Karnataka high court has wondered whether any family can survive on an annual income of less than Rs 11,800, the ceiling to apply for BDA sites under Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) category. Observing that the government must revise the ceiling for all categories every year, the high court has said a beneficiary must not pay for government's failure. "The Rs 11,800 ceiling was fixed long ago. The...
More »Push for cheap housing-Sobhana K
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre is planning to increase cash incentives for private builders willing to construct houses for Economically Weaker Sections in partnership with it. Under the Affordable Housing in Partnership Scheme floated in 2009, the Centre was to pay private builders Rs 50,000 per dwelling unit or 25 per cent of the cost of civic services, whichever was less. Since the scheme found few takers, it is planning to...
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