-PTI/ TheWire.in Hearing a public interest litigation filed by NGO Amguri Naba Nirman Samity, a high court division bench comprising Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Soumitra Saikia asked the Assam government to file a detailed status report on the case. Guwahati: Nearly 12 lakh ineligible farmers received benefits under the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme in Assam, the state government has informed Gauhati high court indicating a massive...
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Modern-Day Slavery in Punjab: Villagers Enslaved and Tortured by Dairy Farmers -Sandeep Singh
-TheQuint.com They are tortured so much that they forget their village name and limit their life to feeding cattle, clearing dung. “Eh ta meri bebe hai,” said Dalbir Singh, (she is my mother) looking at his distraught mother. He then identified his sister. One after the other, he called out the names of familiar faces among the villagers who came with his family. The small crowd cheered every time he joined names...
More »Who is a Bhaiya? -Prabhash K Dutta
-IndiaToday.in Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi courted controversy with remarks he made recently about "UP, Bihar de bhaiye" at a poll rally in Punjab. This week, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi brought 'bhaiya' back into political business. Flanked by senior Congress party colleague Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, CM Channi told an election audience that he "will not let the 'Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi de bhaiye', who have come here to rule, enter"...
More »Maha: One Month Since Schools Reopened, Mid-Day Meal yet to be Resumed in Schools -Amey Tirodkar
-Newsclick.in Maharashtra reopened schools on January 21 after waning of the third wave. It was expected that the mid-day meal scheme would be immediately resumed. But, students continue to be deprived of meals in schools as the scheme is still not functional. Since the graph of the third wave of COVID-19 started going down from January first week, the Maharashtra government allowed the opening of various institutions one by one. The last...
More »The Incomplete Project Of E-Shram, India’s Database Of Unorganised Workers -Sweta Dash
-Article-14.com India’s 380 million informal workers will be registered on a new database that will allow, says the government, social security payments. It isn’t working as it should because the government insists on Aadhaar, which many workers do not have. Others do not know of it, and if they do, may not be digitally literate, and it isn’t clear what entitlements will follow for workers whose data are being collected. New Delhi:...
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