The revised daily wage for NREGS workers is still lower than the minimum wages paid in several States. A CONTROVERSY seems to have surfaced between the Prime Minister's Office and the National Advisory Council (NAC) on the issue of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The NAC has been arguing for some time that there should be parity between wages under the National Rural Employment...
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Villagers await decision on Posco plant by Prafulla Das
Stir likely to be intensified if project gets green signal With the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests set to take a final decision on the proposed steel plant project of Posco-India Private Limited on Monday, Orissa villagers facing displacement have decided to intensify their agitation if the Ministry order went in favour of the company. That a majority of villagers in the three gram panchayats of Dhinkia, Gadakujang and Gobindpur in...
More »'1.72 million children die before age one in India'
A 'savage preference for males' leads to the killing of 7 lakh girls by their parents in the mother's womb each year in India, according to a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member. NHRC member Satyabrata Pal also said that 25 percent of the children who see the LIGht of day are underweight at birth, and 1.72 million children die before they turn one. 'The UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) fears 2,000...
More »Several questions on UID unanswered, say experts
A number of questions on the Unique Identification (UID) project continue to remain unanswered while the project itself is necessitated by the government's policy shift to play an indirect rather than direct role in providing services, a panel of researchers told journalists on the sidelines of a public talk on the subject at St. Xavier's College here on Saturday. Usha Ramanathan, researcher on jurisprudence, poverty and rights, said it was not...
More »Suresh Kalmadi sacked as CWG OC Chairman
Suresh Kalmadi has been sacked as the Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee with immediate effect. Kalmadi was asked to hand over charge to CEO Jarnail Singh on Monday by Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken. Lalit Bhanot has also been removed as Secretary General of the Organising Committee with immediate effect. The decision to remove Kalmadi and Bhanot was taken by the Union Sports Minister in the interest of impartial investigation into the...
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