-Scroll.in In cities where there is already a demand for public transport, an efficient and comfortable system will immensely help users as well as lower pollution levels. For the vast majority of residents in Indian cities, public transit is the only practical means to access education, employment and public services. This becomes more important when public services are beyond the viable distance of walking or cycling. While there are bus systems to cater...
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Centre job fund whip on Bengal -Pranesh Sarkar
-The Telegraph Delhi asks state to recover funds spent on 100 days’ job scheme projects where malpractice was ‘found’ by the monitoring team Calcutta: The Centre has asked the Bengal government to recover funds spent on 100 days’ job scheme projects where malpractice was “found” by a national-level monitoring team while making it clear that release of more money under the MGNREGA for 2022-23 financial year may depend on the state’s efforts...
More »At the centre of job creation -KR Shyam Sundar
-The Hindu The government should re-establish its role as the principal employment generator With his announcement that 10 lakh government jobs will be provided over the next 18 months on a “MISsion mode”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent four messages. One, the creation of employment is indeed a problem and can no longer be hidden from the public discourse. Two, the private sector, especially modern sectors such as the service and manufacturing...
More »Challenges in Centre’s 1-million hiring plan -Howindialives.com
-Livemint.com With its plan to hire 1 million in 18 months, the central government is looking to effectively compress 11 years of hiring into 18 months. But even this won’t resolve the simmering employment crisis and will stretch government finances further Last week, the central government said it would fill its current job vacancies in “MISsion mode". If that MISsion holds, one million Indians will land a central government job in the...
More »Fortification of rice is not the correct solution to end malnutrition in Chhattisgarh, say fact-finding team members who visited the state
-Press release by by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj) and the Right To Food Campaign (RTFC) dated June 20, 2022 Raipur/ New Delhi: Activists of Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) and Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) urged the Chhattisgarh government to abandon its rice fortification interventions. They appealed to the state government that it should not get coerced into distributing fortified rice in the food schemes...
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