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To be part of Moradabad, clerics in Uttar Pradesh boycott polio drive and schools -Faisal Fareed

-The Indian Express Lucknow: Local clerics in nearly 30 Muslim dominated villages in Sambhal district have given a call from mosques to boycott the polio immunisation drive to pressure the government into making their villages part of Moradabad district. The clerics have also told villagers to stop sending their children to school, forbidden them from attending political rallies, and banned the entry of politicians into the villages. Any family that disobeys will be...

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Ban on Cycling Takes Away Right to Life of Poor: Patkar

-Outlook Kolkata: Opposing the blanket ban imposed on bicycles and other forms of non-motorised Transport (NMT) in the city, eminent social activist Medha Patkar today said such restrictions take away the right to life of poor people. "A lot of poor people are dependent on non-motorised Transport for their livelihood, such a ban in effect takes away their right to life," Patkar said at the Transport City Dialogue here through videoconferencing. She said...

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Farmers begin two-day bandh, normal life disrupted in west Maharashtra-Amruta Byatnal

-The Hindu Pune: The two-day State bandh called by sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra started on a violent note on Thursday, especially in the western part of the State. The farmers, under the leadership of MP Raju Shetty of the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS), have been agitating for a higher first advance from the government. The protest, which started on November 15, disrupted normal life as Transport services were stopped across west Maharashtra....

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New index could boost NREGA wages by 9.5% -Sreelatha Menon

-The Business Standard Currently wages are linked to CPI AL Mahendra Dev who heads the new committee set up by the Rural Development Ministry to determine a new index for NREGA wages said that his job is not to engineer an increase in wages to suit political interests. My job is to find a suitable index for NREGA wages based on which a new baseline wage can be fixed for 2014,...

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Metro Rail and the City: Derailing Public Transport -Geetam Tiwari

-Economic and Political Weekly There is overwhelming evidence to show that capital-intensive metro rail systems serve only a small proportion of the total trips in cities in developing countries such as India. Public-private partnerships have not been very successful, and the Delhi Metro, which is considered to be the most successful project despite falling far short of its projected number of users, enjoys numerous tax benefits not offered to the bus...

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