-The Telegraph Delivery team, beauticians’ lives ruled by phone calls and sprints to customers New Delhi: The company Pinki Saini began working for in 2018 did not pay her. Instead, she paid the company for letting her work for it. When she started the job as a beautician with Urbanclap — now known as Urban Company — Pinki says she had to pay the firm a “joining fee” of Rs 4,000. She also...
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Jharkhand eyes rural empowerment -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph In the last three years since the UPA alliance led by Hemant Soren came to power in December 2019, there has been a sixfold increase in the number of women self-help groups receiving community investment funds Jamshedpur: Sustained drive by the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS) has led to the fruition of empowerment of the rural economy, a dream of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren. In the last three years...
More »Ashok Gehlot Slashes LPG Cylinder Prices To Less Than Half In Rajasthan -Harsha Kumari Singh
-NDTV.com Ashok Gehlot said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi provided the poor with LPG connections... But the cylinder remains empty, because the (cylinder) rates are now between ₹ 400 and ₹ 1,040" Jaipur: The Rajasthan government will provide cooking gas cylinders at ₹ 500 for people under the poverty line and enrolled in the Ujjwala scheme, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said today in a big ticket announcement ahead of next year's assembly elections....
More »Most Jharkhand School Students Forgot To Read And Write After Covid: Survey -Akhil Kumar
-NDTV.com The survey focussed on government primary and upper-primary schools where at least 50% of the children enrolled come from scheduled caste (SC) or scheduled tribe (ST) families. New Delhi: Schools in Jharkhand are struggling with abysmal infrastructure, low attendance, a shortage of teachers, and inadequate funding after the Covid pandemic, a recent survey of 138 primary and upper-primary schools revealed. In a majority of these schools, teachers felt that "most" pupils...
More »Axe on grants for poor -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Scholarship pool for OBCs, minorities reduced New Delhi: The pool of poor schoolchildren from the Other Backward Classes and religious minorities who are eligible for two government scholarships has been drastically cut short from this year. The Centre has revised two schemes — the Pre-Matric Scholarship for OBCs and the Pre-Matric Scholarship for minorities — by limiting eligibility to students of Classes IX and X, and only those enrolled in...
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