-The Hindustan Times Tiger population in India is estimated to be 2,226 in 2014, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The big cat population in 2010 was an estimated 1,706. The number in the central Indian landscape had gone down four years ago. "While the tiger population is falling in the world, it is rising in India. It is a great news," environment minister Prakash Javadekar said. "Never before such an exercise...
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Centre halves fund for job-guarantee scheme
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The Modi government's squeeze on the UPA's flagship MNREGA scheme is translating into dramatic fund cuts for Maharashtra, which has a BJP government. Compared to the last financial year till December, central funds to the rural job scheme have almost halved, data with the state government reveals. The MNREGA-among the largest job-creation programmes in the world-provides a social safety net for the rural poor. Under the scheme,...
More »Maharashtra cuts food subsidy for 1.7 cr people -Sandeep A Ashar
-The Indian Express Mumbai: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Friday that his government won't cut subsidies for the poor, it has now come to light that the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra has already silently discontinued the food subsidy for nearly 2 crore people in the state. According to sources, the Devendra Fadnavis government has decided to discontinue supply of subsidised food grains to 1.77 crore people who were...
More »Arvind Panagariya’s plan for NITI Aayog: Focus on labour reforms, SMEs -P Vaidyanathan Iyer
-The Indian Express For Arvind Panagariya, the first Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, policy-making, rather than planning, will be his top priority. In his first interaction with officers of the erstwhile Planning Commission, he spoke at length on the need to push through labour reforms and strengthen the SME (small and medium enterprise) segment - the backbone of manufacturing - to take India up several notches in the competition ladder. On Tuesday, his...
More »Shiv Sena continues to oppose 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project -Sanjay Jog
-Business Standard But the BJP govt at the Centre and state supports the project Mumbai: Despite being in the government, Shiv Sena has not revised its belligerent stance on the Jaitapur nuclear power project, and reiterated it on Monday. "There has been no change in the party's stand in this regard. Shiv Sena is strongly opposed to Jaitapur nuclear power project which may be highly dangerous for the environment and human being. Shiv...
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