-The Hindu Business Line The scheme has made life easier for the people of this Andhra Pradesh village, one of the first in the state to have 100 per cent financial inclusion. But the local experience also throws up a few questions relevant nationally, reports Gunturi Naga Sridhar Fourty-year-old M Ravamma, from Polavaram, a village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, had a nightmarish experience two months ago. Her husband complained...
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SC asks RBI for details of firms that have defaulted on loans of over Rs 500 crore -Shreeja Sen
-Livemint.com The Supreme Court has asked RBI to submit the information within six weeks New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to furnish details of companies that have defaulted on loans amounting to more than Rs.500 crore in sealed covers within six weeks. The court made the central bank a party to a 2005 case related to bad loans advanced to a few companies...
More »The tough task of inculcating the value of inclusion in schools -Zubeda Hamid and S Poorvaja
-The Hindu Efforts to include children with disabilities in mainstream schools are fraught with challenges, say experts. Chennai: The last few weeks have been hectic for Sangeetha* (name changed) as she has been looking to admit her 11-year-old son into a new school for the coming academic year. “My son has mild Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD) and was studying in a private school in Mogappair but he and 17 other children with special...
More »Jharkhand to share ideas with nation about MGNREGA facelift -Santosh Narayan
-The Pioneer Ranchi: Tuesday would be a proud moment for Jharkhand when officials of the State would share the mechanism, which is said to have helped in implementing the world’s largest pro-poor scheme — Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) — successfully. The State has been selected alongwith two others to showcase its success in arresting the menace of delayed payment, often blamed for suffocating the rural job scheme. The moment came...
More »An election less democratic -Kirti Singh
-The Indian Express Haryana panchayat poll outcome does not reflect the state’s social composition The panchayat elections in Haryana have yielded results drastically different from previous elections. This is because a large number of persons were barred from contesting these elections due to educational and other disqualifications introduced through amendments by the Haryana assembly in September last year. In the widely criticised Rajbala and others vs State of Haryana judgment, the Supreme...
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