-The Telegraph Shortage of funds that was being cited was a gross violation of the law: Swaraj Abhiyan The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine an NGO’s plea that crores of workers were in a crisis as funds-starved states had run up wage dues of Rs 9,682 crore under the Centre’s flagship 100-day job scheme MGNREGA that has witnessed an INCrease in beneficiaries because of the pandemic. A bench of Chief Justice...
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Terrorists Killed 1,724 In J&K In 31 Years, 89 Kashmiri Pandits: RTI Reply -Mohammad Ghazali
-NDTV.com Data from a second RTI request showed that 88 per cent of the 1.54 lakh people, or 1.35 lakh individuals, who fled the Valley sINCe 1990 - were Kashmiri Pandits Chandigarh: Terrorists in Kashmir killed 1,724 people - of whom 89 were Kashmiri Pandits and the rest were "people of other faiths", INCluding Muslims - over the past 31 years, the Srinagar district Police HQ said last month in response to...
More »14-year-old threatens against non-INClusion of eggs in mid-day meal -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Influential Lingayat and Hindu seers say they will brook no deviation from a purely vegetarian diet for children Bangalore: A 14-year-old Karnataka schoolgirl has told powerful seers opposing boiled eggs in midday meals they don’t understand the problems of the poor and have no business telling them what they should eat. In a video clip widely shared on social media, Anjali, a Class VIII student of MNM Government Girls School at...
More »Black money: No estimate of amount stashed in foreign accounts for last 5 years, Centre tells RS
-Scroll.in The Centre said that 648 disclosures about foreign assets worth Rs 4,164 crore were made during a one-time compliance window in September 2015. There is no official estimate on the amount of black money stashed in foreign accounts for last five years, the Union government told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary made the statement in a written reply to a question by Samajwadi Party MPs...
More »Mainstreaming climate resilience through MGNREGS: Learning from Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai -Nambi Appadurai and Sowmithri VR
-Down to Earth Blog The district set a record for creating 1,121 farm ponds in 30 days in September 2021, in line with the recently launched state climate mission In September 2021, Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district set a record for creating 1,121 farm ponds in 30 days by leveraging the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The initiative’s aim was to ensure adequate water for agricultural and domestic purposes throughout the...
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