-Press note by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated August 4, 2022 On the final day of the 3-day dharna, despite heavy rains, hundreds of mazdoors from 15 states stayed on at Jantar Mantar to continue raising their voices. Currently, 14 states are running a negative balance on NREGA funds, and 64 percent of the budget for this financial has already been spent. More than Rs. 6800 crores are due in wages to...
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Centre to launch new anti-TB programme focused on nutrition
-The New Indian Express One of the main thrust areas of the programme will involve encouraging adopting TB patients so that their nutritional needs are met. NEW DELHI: Even as tuberculosis, one of the biggest killers, saw a 19 percent increase in 2021, the Centre has now planned to launch a new programme -- Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan (PMTBMBA) -- that will encourage financial contributions from not only non-governmental organisations...
More »Government Withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill, Plans New Set of Legislations
-TheWire.in The withdrawn Bill had, controversially, sought to provide the government with powers to exempt its probe agencies from the provisions of the Act. New Delhi: The government on Wednesday withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill from the Lok Sabha and said it would come out with a “set of new legislation” that will fit into a ‘comprehensive legal framework’. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said this while moving for withdrawal of the Bill...
More »A 3-day dharna for the rights of the MGNREGA workers begins today at Delhi's Jantar Mantar
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated August 2, 2022 During and after Covid, NREGA work has been the lifeline for more than 70 percent of the country’s population, when the cities sent back the migrants, it was NREGA that gave them the life of dignity in the rural areas. Many economists have also said that MGNREGA has continued to be the only lifeline for rural workers—one that provides work and...
More »From 6,342 buses to 3,910 in 12 yrs, Delhi commuters suffer with old fleet, depleting further -Abhishek Dey
-ThePrint.in By 2025, 83 per cent of the DTC bus fleet will be phased out upon completion of their operational life. Transport minister Kailash Gahlot hopeful of reviving the corporation New Delhi: For those in the national capital who rely on buses for daily commute, the road ahead seems far from smooth. According to government records, 83 per cent of the buses that make up Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC) existing fleet will...
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