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Aadhaar Of Injustice -Anjali Bhardwaj & Amrita Johri

-The Indian Express Linking it to ration cards ends up denying poor their rightful entitlements In September 2017, 11-year-old Santoshi, resident of Simdega district of Jharkhand, succumbed to starvation. According to her mother, she died “asking for rice, but there was not a single grain at home”. She was deprived of her subsidised ration as her family’s ration card was cancelled because it was not linked to Aadhaar. Marandi in Jharkhand met...

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A statistical boost to growth in Indian economy -Manas Chakravarty

-Livemint.com While CSO’s GDP growth estimates will be a disappointment, it will very likely be explained away soon as the market tries to find new and innovative reasons to extend the rally For a few quarters, take all year-on-year (y-o-y) growth figures about the Indian economy with a pinch of salt. That’s because they will now be boosted due to the favourable effect of a low base. Since demonetisation and the introduction...

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Can Budget 2018 Set a Road Map For a Truly 'Good and Simple Tax'? -Rajul Awasthi

-TheWire.in While the nitty-gritties of GST work are handled by the council, slippage in revenues are a result of poor design, which is why a road map for reforming the GST is needed. I don’t envy finance minister Arun Jaitley. The fiscal situation is looking rather grim, with the fiscal deficit target amount for the entire year having already been exceeded by 12 percentage points, with a full quarter of the fiscal...

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Dismay over IAS salary data void

-PTI New Delhi: A parliamentary panel headed by sidelined BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi has expressed its "strong displeasure" at the government for not providing details of the expenditure incurred on the salaries and allowances of IAS, IPS and other officers. The committee on estimates suggested in a recent report an effective mechanism to assess the contribution of officers from the all-India services to national growth with relation to their emoluments. "The committee...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch nutrition mission -Syed Intishab Ali

-The Times of India JAIPUR: To reduce the level of stunting, undernutrition, anemia and low birth weight in babies, the Centre has included 24 districts of Rajasthan in the first phase of National Nutrition Mission (NMM), which is expected to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jhunjhunu on January 22. In the first phase, 315 districts from different states will be taken up. In the second, 235 districts will be...

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