-GaonConnection.com The half-yearly MG-NREGA National tracker launched by PAEG today highlighted that 90 per cent of the allocated budget has been used up with 5 months of the programme still remaining and the remaining funds available can cover at most 13 days of employment per household till March 31, 2022. More details here. In her opening statement at the joint press conference conducted by Peoples’ Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) and LibTech...
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No money left in MGNREGA coffers; 21 States in the red -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu States creating artificial demand, says official; workers pushed into ‘forced labour’ by delayed payments, say Activists The Centre’s flagship rural employment scheme has run out of funds halfway through the financial year, and supplementary budgetary allocations will not come to the rescue for at least another month when the next Parliamentary session begins. According to its own financial statement, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme shows...
More »The Real 'State' in India Is Its Criminal Justice System -NC Asthana
-TheWire.in The biggest tormentor of the people in India is paradoxically the Indian state itself. We are living in times that are both frightening and strange. They are frightening because the Indian society is being driven by a binary system. Either you conform to the majoritarian or official narrative, or you are branded a traitor of some sort – jihadi, urban Naxal, or ISI agent who must be jailed or tormented by...
More »Yogendra Yadav suspended by SKM, Punjab-based farmers’ unions pressed the demand -Amit Bhardwaj
-IndiaToday.in The Samyukta Kisan Morcha has suspended Yogendra Yadav for one month for meeting the family members of the BJP workers who were killed during the Lakhimpur violence. On Thursday, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) — the apex body of farmers’ organisations opposing the three farm laws — suspended social Activist Yogendra Yadav from the farmers’ body for one month. WHY WAS YOGENDRA YADAV SUSPENDED? The demand for Yadav’s suspension was pressed by several...
More »Easy Guide to Make Patients Aware of Their Rights -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in The book is a useful resource for patients, caregivers, Activists and medical professionals in ensuring that patients’ rights are established and enforced as human rights. The right to health is not justiciable in India though the Supreme Court has interpreted it to be a part of Article 21 (protection of life and personal liberty). The apex court’s judgements and the legal provisions in Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940, Consumer Protection Act 1986,...
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