-Scroll.in The sugar-coated termination of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana calls for an urgent expansion of alternative social security measures. Much confusion surrounds the Modi Government’s recent move to modify the foodgrain entitlements of National Food Security Act cardholders from January 1, 2023 onwards. The move actually has two steps, cleverly synchronised. The first step consists of waiving, for one year, the token payments that National Food Security Act, or NFSA, cardholders...
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India's Population, Poverty And Consumption Data Missing As 2022 Comes To A Close -Prachi Salve|
-IndiaSpend.com Several important datasets that help in formulating Government policies have not been released for over two years Mumbai: Of 20 Government datasets that IndiaSpend analysed, the collection of data or its public release has been delayed for 12 datasets. Crucial data such as from the census, household expenditure and poverty estimates, which influence other data sets and policymaking, are over two years old. Political manipulation in data releases and a weakened data...
More »TN plans unique number for each state resident -Divya Chandrababu
-Hindustan Times Chief minister M K Stalin had during the assembly sessions spoken of data-centric governance and the TNeGA department is responsible for driving all technology initiatives for the state Government. The data would be available in English and Tamil Chennai: The Tamil Nadu e-governance agency (TNeGA) conducted a pre-bid meeting on Thursday as the state Government is looking to build tools to create a unique individual number for each resident of...
More »Restore ration entitlements axed by PMGKAY withdrawal: Right to Food campaign
- Press release by Right to Food campaign dated 30 December, 2022 The Right to Food campaign has demanded that the Government should restore the grain entitlements granted under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). On 23 December, 2022 the Union Government announced that it would discontinue the PMGKAY from 1 January, 2023, thus halving the ration entitlements of eligible people. Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, (NFSA), all priority category ration cardholders...
More »Centre's April-November fiscal deficit Rs 9.78 lakh crore, 58.9% of FY budget estimate
-Moneycontrol.com The Centre is targeting a fiscal deficit of Rs 16.61 lakh crore for the current financial year, or 6.4 percent of the GDP. In the April-November period of FY22, the fiscal deficit was 46.2 percent of the full year target. The central Government's fiscal deficit widened to Rs 9.78 lakh crore in April-November period, accounting for 58.9 percent of the full-year target, data released on December 30 by the Controller General...
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