-The Indian Express Ludhiana: Even as the paddy season began on June 10, farmers are still busy wooing labourers to work in their farms, while many landlords have increased bounties to attract previous year's workers. They are offering unlimited rations, milk, non-vegeterian food once a week, mobile recharge, Bhojpuri music while farmers work in the fields and much more. Migrant labourers usually work in Punjab fields but with MNREGA providing employment at...
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Correcting a historical injustice-Nalini Juneja
-The Hindu So far, the electoral promises of allocation of six per cent of GDP to education have remained as pious wishes Election manifestoes over decades have rhetorically spoken of six per cent of GDP or more to education and this election has been no exception; the actual spending on education is only around three per cent. Not surprisingly, school infrastructure and teaching personnel are inadequate and of poor quality while the dropout...
More »Annshree scheme ends, ration from May -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The curtains are down on former chief minister Sheila Dikshit's Annshree Yojna. The over one lakh beneficiaries will be enrolled for the food security programme, and the ration is expected to be supplied from May 1. The cash-for-food scheme was the first such project of the Delhi government launched by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in December 2012 to promote the UPA's idea of cash transfer as...
More »Gains against malaria but threat remains-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Three out of four people are at risk of malaria in World Health Organisation's South-East Asia Region, which is home to a quarter of the world's population despite huge gains in tackling the disease. The WHO has urged the governments, development partners and the corporate sector to invest more to sustain the gains and eliminate malaria. WHO's South-East Asia Region comprises 11 member-states: Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Democratic People's Republic of...
More »Migrants denied basic human rights, says study on Kolkata -Sayantan Bera
-Down to Earth One-third of India's population are migrants, but the country is yet to make a policy or plan for them, says collaborative study report by Institute of Social Sciences and UNICEF As many as 309 million people, nearly a third of India's population, were migrants according to the 2001 Census. But the only ‘right' which they are able to exercise is the one that allows all citizens the right to...
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