-Press release by All India Media Conference 2019 New Delhi, September 9, 2019: The fourth edition of All India Media Conference 2019 has come up with a new initiative to promote violence free childhood by organizing Walkathon at Udaipur, celebrating 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 70 years of UNICEF India. A walkathon will be organised to highlight Violence-Free Childhood along the banks of...
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Curious case of Mudra loan failure and disconnect of BJP's election winning machine -Prabhash K Dutta
-IndiaToday.in Total value of Mudra loans stood at Rs 5.57 lakh crore. Total number of employment generated from this amount stood at 1.12 crore. This means every single employment cost the government around Rs 5 lakh under Mudra Yojana. * PM Modi launched Mudra Yojana as a flagship job creation programme in 2015 * Recent reports say only 20 per cent Mudra loans led to fresh employment * Mudra Yojana Survey by Labour Ministry...
More »Navi Mumbai to have Maharashtra's FIRst detention centre for illegal immigrants: Report
-Scroll.in In July, the Union government had sent instructions to all state governments to set up detention centres in all major cities. The Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government has identified land to build the state’s FIRst detention centre for illegal immigrants, Mumbai Mirror reported on Saturday. The home department last week reportedly wrote to the City and Industrial Development Corporation, which is the planning authority for Navi Mumbai, and sought a three-acre plot in...
More »Government violates NFSA, thousands of women deprived of maternity benefits; reveals survey -Jaideep Deogharia
-The Times of India RANCHI: Noted economist Jean Dreze has accused the Centre of violating National Food Security Act by depriving a section of women from maternity benefits which is otherwise guaranteed under NFSA-2013. Survey conducted by Sakina Dhorajiwala of Libtech India along with students from Delhi University, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tata Institute of Social Service (TISS) and Ranchi University in June 2019 has revealed that out of 232 eligible...
More »A fruitful time for migrant labourers -Sarita Brara
-The Hindu Business Line The apple season in Himachal Pradesh spells good earnings for workers from India and Nepal It is apple season in Himachal Pradesh — the time of the year when thousands of migrant labourers from Nepal, Bihar, Jharkhand, UP and Uttarakhand travel long distances to reach the apple belt of the State, hoping to earn hefty wages. From plucking, loading, grading, labelling and packaging apples, these workers fan out, from...
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