-TheWire.in The survey also conferred a lot of credit on the Centre’s move in 2015 to implement direct benefit transfer and aadhaar-linked payments when it comes to workers' wages. New Delhi: In tacit acceptance of the sudden surge in demand for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) following the demonetisation move of the government in 2016, the Economic Survey (released this July 4) has called for using...
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Penalty, jail term to private entities storing aadhaar data -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
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-Scroll.in They lost their money after Delhi’s municipal corporation was split into three districts in 2013. Kamru Jamaal’s life would be easier if he got the monthly pension of Rs 1,000 that New Delhi’s municipal corporations are supposed to pay their poor senior citizens. At 73, he makes a living driving a cycle-rickshaw on the streets of North Delhi’s Kingsway Camp area. “I can’t remember how long I haven’t been paid a pension,”...
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-The Hindu aadhaar linkage needed for it to work; States given one more year to use point of sale machines in ration shops, says Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan New Delhi: ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme, which will allow portability of food security benefits, will be available across the country from July 1, 2020. This means poor migrant workers will be able to buy subsidised rice and wheat from any ration...
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-Livemint.com * The new scheme is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's universal social secuity programme * PM Narendra Modi's new pension scheme aims at benefiting over 3 crore traders and shopkeepers The newly-inducted Union Cabinet, in its first meeting, approved a mega pension scheme to provide a minimum assured pension of Rs.3000 per month to all small shopkeepers and retail traders. The new scheme is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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