-The Hindu Admits lawyer’s letter seeking court-monitored probe as PIL petition Amid mounting pressure on the Uttar Pradesh police to solve the Unnao gang-rape case and custodial death of the minor victim’s father, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the matter. Acting on a request by senior advocate Gopal S. Chaturvedi for a court-monitored probe, the HC admitted his letter as a Public Interest Litigation plea. The matter...
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Delay in MGNREGA wage payment caused by non-processing of Fund Transfer Orders, say social activists
-Press Release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 11 April, 2018 Stagnant wage rates are not the only rude shock that workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) received this month. Most of the them also remain unpaid for the work done by them in the past few months. Ninety-nine per cent of the Fund Transfer Orders (FTOs) for MGNREGA wage payments sent to the Public Finance Management...
More »Food for thought: do Attappady community kitchens serve the needy? -KA Shaji
-The Hindu Amid criticism from SC/ST panel, experts say project must continue Now in her late twenties, Veeramma Selvan of Thekkekadampara tribal hamlet in Sholayur gram panchayat of Attappady has reasons to believe that her gods have stopped smiling. It was in January last year that she lost her five-month-old, underweight son Balu — her fourth child — allegedly due to milk aspiration. (a medical condition in which the mother's milk goes...
More »Farm distress is now haunting us: NITI Aayog's Rajiv Kumar -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com The NITI Aayog and the government have decided to focus only and only on farmers and the agriculture sector, says NITI Aayog VC Rajiv Kumar New Delhi: The spectre of farm distress has finally begun to haunt policymakers and the government is doing everything it can to address the SITuation, Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman of central government think tank NITI Aayog, said on Friday. “We in the NITI Aayog and the government have...
More »Transport ministry, petitioners argue on requirement of environment clearance for Char Dham project -Seema Sharma
-The Times of India DEHRADUN: The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highway (MORTH) in their affidavit submitted before the National Green Tribunal(NGT) in matter of Char Dham widening road in Uttarakhand stated that in all the total 53 projects/stretches of Char Dham, none is above 100 km which is why no environmental clearance was obtained. NGT bench headed by justice Jawed Rahim pulled up MORTH as well as state government on...
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