-Down to Earth MGNREGA workers in Bengal not paid wages of Rs 2744 crore for a year, report by Libtech India found The central Government has withheld release of Rs 7,500 crore in MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) funds to West Bengal for a year now over “non-compliance of central Government directives”, a report released on December 26, 2022 claimed. A whopping Rs 2,744 crore of the Rs 7,500...
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A welcome move: On the free grains scheme under food security law
-The Hindu The Centre’s taking up the burden for free food grain distribution in 2023 will provide relief to States The Government has decided not to extend the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, (PMGKY), a scheme that ran between April 2020 to December 2022 (except for a short period in between), and provided additional allocation of food grains, i.e., rice or wheat from the central pool at five kilograms a month...
More »MGNREGA workers in West Bengal have not received wages since December 26, 2021
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated December 26, 2022 * Centre withheld over Rs. 7,500 cr funds, Rs. 2,744 cr due to NREGA workers * Centre hasn’t sanctioned labour budget for 2022-23 * Loss of around Rs. 3,891-Rs. 6,046 crores of NREGA wages this FY due to stoppage of work * Average days of work for the current year dropped to meagre 23 from 63.46 days (pre-covid) and 49.96 days (post-covid) Victimisation of workers: MGNREGA...
More »Expedite categorisation of de-notified, nomadic, semi-nomadic tribes: House panel -Abhinay Lakshman
-The Hindu Delay would increase their suffering and deprive them of welfare schemes, Parliamentary panel on Social Justice and Empowerment said The Parliamentary panel on Social Justice and Empowerment has pulled up the Union Government over the “very slow” process to categorise over 260 denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes under either the SC/ST/OBC lists, which Government officials have pointed to for the delay in the approval of benefits under the SEED (Scheme...
More »Why Has India’s Industrial Economy Become Stagnant? -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The sharp and apparently intriguing fall in industrial production in October, and feeble post-Covid recovery, points to a deep-rooted malaise in the Indian economy. There has been much discussion in public about the index of industrial production (IIP) for October 2022 being 4% lower than the index for October 2021; and quite rightly so, since no obvious explanations like a Covid-induced lockdown or even its residual lingering effects can be adduced...
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