-Firstpost.com The labour ministry has put the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) on the back burner as it wants to transition to computing payroll data based on Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) subscriptions, based on data from the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), according to this report in The Economic Times. Of course, the EPFO-based jobs data gives one a better picture about the...
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Under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's village faces neglect -Siraj Qureshi
-IndiaToday.in Agra: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed charge four years ago, he declared that the development of villages was top on his priorities. For this, he asked all BJP MPs to adopt at least one village in their constituency under the 'Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana', even urging the lawmakers from other parties to follow the suit. However, none of the villages adopted by about 400 MPs of BJP, can claim to be...
More »Koregaon cuffs on editor, professor -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Police have arrested five activists, including an editor, a professor and a lawyer, on the suspicion of being Maoists, more than six months after an attack by alleged Hindutva groups on Ambedkarities visiting a war memorial near Pune. Those arrested have been booked under several charges, including the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Pune police on Wednesday arrested Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) spokesperson Rona Wilson from...
More »Index NREGA wages to rural inflation: Rural development ministry -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a bid to ensure higher returns for labourers in MGNREGA, the Union rural development ministry has again asked the finance ministry to index the wages under the job guarantee scheme to Consumer Price Index (rural - CPI-R) in place of the current CPI (agricultural labourers - CPI-AL). The RD ministry has argued that CPI (R) better reflects the present consumption pattern among rural households unlike...
More »85% Rural Work Wages Paid On Time: BJP. Claim Reflects Pay Orders Not Wages -IndiaSpend
-FactChecker.in/ IndiaSpend Team Mumbai: On completing four years in government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a slew of infographics based on what it offered as achievements. Two such claims relate to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a 12-year-old rural make-work programme launched in 2006 by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, led by the Congress party. The BJP–whose leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said the...
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