-The Telegraph Can issuing work permits and settling people outside Assam resolve the problem temporarily? In his Outlook article, (retired Union Cabinet secretary and a long-time North-east hand at the Centre) G.K. Pillai offered a temporary arrangement of granting ‘a five-year work permit’ to those not included in the final NRC, basically to maintain status quo, ‘to calm things down and allow a range of policy options to be developed carefully over...
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Kerala, Tamil Nadu best performers in child health and welfare
-The Telegraph Kerala surpassed other States in access to good healthcare, nutrition and quality education New Delhi: A report on child well-being in India rated Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh as the best States. The report released last week covered most of the major aspects of child well-being, health, nutrition, education and protection. The India Child Well-Being report by World Vision India, a humanitarian organisation, and IFMR LEAD, a non-profit research organisation,...
More »Centre Rejects Kerala's Demand for Free Rice for Flood Victims
-TheWire.in Instead, the Centre is willing to supply rice at the minimum support price of Rs 26 per kg. New Delhi: The Central government has rejected the Kerala government’s request for a supply of free rice for the victims of floods and heavy rainfall, according to a report in Mathrubhumi. The report also stated that the Centre refused to consider the request to provide rice at Rs 3 per kg under the National...
More »Every third Indian policeman finds mob lynchings a 'natural' response to cow slaughter
-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend A new survey reveals the biases among India’s police forces. Every third Indian police person thinks it is natural “to a large extent” or “somewhat” – for a mob to punish culprits when there is a case of cow slaughter, a new survey has revealed. These data correlate with the findings of a FactChecker.in database that tracks such violence: police had charged victims in 28% of 133 cow-related attacks since...
More »States need to have better control on long-term credit flow: NITI Aayog official
-PTI New Delhi: State governments need to capitalise their credit institutions to get access to long-term finance and have better control over their credit flow, a NITI Aayog official said. The States have no control over the long-term finance right now, but nobody is stopping them from recapitalising finance corporations which will allow them to on-lend at attractive rates to entrepreneurs, NITI Aayog Special Secretary Yaduvendra Mathur said. “States can’t just wait that...
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