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Money for nothing. And misery for free by Rohini Mohan

IT WAS a windfall five years ago that taught Panchali Satyavva the power of a lie. It happened one Monday afternoon in Someshwar village of Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. It was raining in sheets and she had just placed a bucket under the steady trickle of water from the roof of her hut. Two men were at her door, holding umbrellas and offering her an unsolicited Rs. 5,000. They...

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Rajasthan govt to impose penalty for delaying MGNREGA payment

To ensure timely and justified payment to MGNREGA labourers in Rajasthan, state Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday approved the proposal to impose a penalty on the concerned official for delayed or paltry payment to the labourers, an official said. Gehlot approved the proposal of the Panchayti Raj department under which the District Programme Coordinator or District Collector would initiate an enquiry into complaints of delayed or paltry payments, the official...

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Unique facility, or recipe for trouble? by Jean Drèze

It is quite likely that a few weeks from now someone will be knocking at your doors and asking for your fingerprints. If you agree, your fingerprints will enter a national database, along with personal characteristics (age, sex, occupation, and so on) that have already been collected from you, unless you were missed in the “Census household listing” earlier this year. The purpose of this exercise is to build the National...

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Employment generation and Agriculture Sector should be given top importance: ILC recommends

The two day 43rd Session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC), the apex national tripartite body that discusses key issues affecting labour and employment and provides policy perspectives and recommendations, concluded in New Delhi today. The Conference was inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday 23rd November 2010. Senior level representatives of the three pillars of the tripartism, Trade Unions, Employers’ Associations and Government, participated in the deliberations...

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Food Security Sans PDS: Universalization Through Targeting? by Smita Gupta

The case of the Food Security Bill gets curiouser and curiouser.  What started off as a fight between universalization and targeting has ended (or so it would seem) in a complete victory in the National Advisory Council, Government of India (NAC) for targeting through universalization (if such a thing was possible), with the honourable exception of Prof Jean Dreze, who has to be commended for his ‘note of disagreement’. On...

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