-NDTV.com In February 2015, PRIme Minister Narendra Modi, in a speech in Parliament, ridiculed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) program as a symbol of the policy failures of the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government headed by Dr. Manmohan Singh and, in his typical coarse style, taunted that he would bleed the program to a slow death. Exactly six years later, on February 12, 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala...
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Put Electricity Amendment Bill in Public Domain: Power Engineers Federation
-PTI/ Newsclick.in The draft Bill, listed to be tabled in Parliament in the current session, is not available on the power ministry website, AIPEF’s V K Gupta said. New Delhi: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has demanded that the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 must be put in the public domain before starting a discussion on the same. The AIPEF shot off a letter to the PRIme Minister on Friday last...
More »Pandemic may impact goal to ‘double farm income’ by 2022: Official -PRIscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu “Only implementation of strategies is being monitored, rather than actual outcomes” New Delhi: In the last year of its mission to double farmers income, the Centre admits that no actual assessment of farm income has been carried out since 2013. Ashok Dalwai, head of the committee on doubling farmers income, told The Hindu that only the implementation of strategies is being monitored, rather than actual outcomes. He cautioned that the impact...
More »Ban on new hydel projects in Uttarakhand: 2 yrs ago, PMO set tough green rules but Rawat saw red -Jay Mazoomdaar
-The Indian Express Uttarakhand CM sent letter to PM on jobs, energy security; SC awaits Govt unified stand. At least two power projects hit by the glacial flood burst in Uttarakhand last Sunday — in which over 150 workers are still feared missing or trapped — were in a list of 13 flagged at a meeting in the PRIme Minister’s Office exactly two years ago. That meeting, records show, ordered a permanent ban...
More »27.37% PRIson inmates in India ‘illiterate’, over 5,600 techies, says government data
-PTI/ The Hindu Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous State, houses the maximum number of PRIsoners at 1,01,297. As many as 1,32,729 (27.37%) of the 4,78,600 PRIson inmates in the country are “illiterate” while 5,677 hold a technical degree or diploma, according to Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) data. The PRIson statistics presented by Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy recently in Parliament were based on a compilation of...
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