-The Times of India RANCHI: Jharkhand government has bagged appreciation from the union ministry of rural development (MoRD) for its effective implementation of MGNREGA schemes. The centre has allowed 50 more blocks-- highest in the country-- to be included in CFT project (Convergence of MGNREGS, National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) and Cluster Facilitation Team (CFT)). Centre directed other states to take lesson from Jharkhand model and implement some of the best...
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Suicide stats show wide gap between SCs and others in Gujarat, Tripura -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express Muslims have among the lowest suicide rates in the country at 7. The suicide rate among Dalits in Gujarat and Tripura is nearly 1½ times the overall suicide rate in each state. This emerges from government data collected on suicides across the country based on caste and religion. The data, collected by NCRB in 2014 but never published, were accessed by The Indian Express through RTI. They show the average...
More »State action vital to end social exclusion, says new report
Although public goods are meant for everyone to enable living life with human dignity, certain groups are systematically deprived to access them, says a new report from the Centre for Equity Studies -- a NGO based in Delhi. Put differently, not all sections of the society are able to access or enjoy public goods and services on an equal footing, despite social justice being one of the key provisions of...
More »Environment ministry defines forests, legally -Nitin Sethi
-Business Standard Large green patches, apart from recorded forests, to get protection. Clarity to help industry In a move that is expected to have far-reaching consequences for protection of forests while ensuring ease of doing business for mining sector, realty sector and industry, the Union environment ministry has defined what constitutes a forest under the Forest Conservation Act 1980 (FCA). The legal definition, pending since 2006, will help in identifying areas where development...
More »Bhopal tragedy: Over 100,000 signatures against Dow Chemical, US govt compelled to give formal response -Rahul Noronha
-India Today A gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal during the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984 had killed thousands and has been dubbed the biggest industrial disaster in the world. An online petition by Bhopal gas tragedy survivors and groups representing their cause has garnered more than 100,000 signatures which would compel the US government to issue a formal response to the petition. A gas leak from...
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