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15 opposition MPs reject JPC’s 2G draft report

-The Times of India The prospects of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) draft report on the 2G scam being adopted dimmed further, with 15 Opposition MPs on the panel "rejecting" the report that gives Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit. The same set of MPs, who wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar expressing lack of confidence in JPC chairperson P C Chacko, submitted letters to the committee secretariat, choosing...

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Finally, a consensus on land acquisition bill after six years

-The Times of India A significant part of the Manmohan Singh government's political agenda for the 2014 election looks set to sail through Parliament with an all-party meeting on Thursday putting its seal of approval on a contentious bill on land acquisition that enhances compensation for farmers. The government countered criticism that the bill's provisions make land acquisition more time consuming while pushing up costs, but all major political parties seemed...

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No meeting ground -TK Rajalakshmi

-Frontline The Land Acquisition Bill runs into a roadblock as political parties fail to reach an agreement on the substantive features of the draft Bill or on the amendments proposed. The efforts of the United Progressive Alliance government to broker a consensus on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012, which has been pending for over a year, have not paid off not because...

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Jairam alleges road building scam in UP-Kavita Chowdhury

-The Business Standard Demands CBI inquiry into Rs 2.4 crore road construction scam Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has scolded the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh over an alleged Rs 2.4 crore fund embezzlement under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in the state. He has asked for an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The issue pertains to construction of five roads in Sultanpur district,...

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UP govt to launch rural housing scheme today -Neha Shukla

-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has made women from poor rural background direct beneficiaries ofLohiaGrameenAwasYojana and has allotted Rs520 crore for the scheme to provide shelter to homeless rural populace of the state, which would be launched today. War widows need not even confirm to the income criteria to be beneficiaries under the scheme. People who are not yet on the list of BPL survey...

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