-News18.com The Ministry of Rural Development has written to all states reminding them that they need to furnish action taken reports showing compliance to the indicators set by the ministry to avail funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MNREGA). “The assessment of the compliance with the indicators brought in to ensure transparency and accountability in the use of MNREGA funds will be done in October,” said Giriraj...
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Protest against eviction drives in Delhi-NCR and other cities
-Press release by Freedom from Bondage movement dated 6 September, 2022 New Delhi: As we mark #75thIndependenceDay & #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav, thousands of people who have been evicted from their homes in slums, Jhuggies, settlement colonies and informal sector workers who have been denied their livelihood without any rehabilitation have gathered at Jantar Mantar to raise their voice against the “Bulldozer Raj”. The government is forcibly snatching the land of poor Dalits and...
More »About 300 branches of PSU Banks to be opened in these states by Dec 2022
-PTI/ Livemint.com Among these 300 new branches, the maximum number of PSU Banks will be opened in Rajasthan with 95 branches, followed by 54 in Madhya Pradesh, 38 in Gujarat, 33 in Maharashtra, 32 in Jharkhand, and 31 in Uttar Pradesh. About 300 brick-and-mortar branches of public sector Banks will be opened in the unBanked areas of various states by December 2022, according to sources as quoted by the news agency PTI....
More »UrBan jobless rate in 7 states, J&K acutely high -Surya Sarathi Ray
-Financial Express Pan-India unemployment down since the second wave of Covid-19. Even as there has been a steady decline in urBan unemployment since the highly infective second Covid wave, joblessness in seven states of Rajasthan, Bihar, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh, besides Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, remained at very high levels, as per the periodic labour force survey (PLFS) data. These states, where unemployment has consistently been higher than...
More »At India’s Climate, Finance and Policy Intersection, Big Infra Remains King -Amitanshu Verma
-TheWire.in * As of last year, financial institutions from India were the third-largest investors out of six countries financing 80% of the world’s coal investments. * A 2021 report found that ICICI, the State Bank of India, Axis Bank, Trust Group and HDFC were among the fourth-biggest group of financiers of coal-based projects worldwide. * Indian commercial Banks’ large-scale investment in Big Infra has exposed the Indian people’s savings and personal investments to...
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