Milk prices are expected to remain high this summer due to tight demand-supply balance and high input costs, said Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das at the first bi-monthly monetary policy of 2023 on ThursDay. “Milk prices could remain firm due to high input costs and seasonal factors,” said Das. The RBI’s observation comes a Day after reports stated that the government was mulling import of dairy products this...
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Government hikes wages under MGNREGA, check state wise rates here - Nishtha Pandey
CNBC-TV18 The notification was issued under Section 6 (1) of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Starting April 1, wage hikes ranging from Rs 7 to Rs 26 will be implemented. The central government has notified a hike in wage rates under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) for FY 2022-2024. After the hike Haryana has the highest daily wage at Rs 357 per Day. While...
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The Hindu Businessline The average Days of employment per household under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in FY23 are likely to be lower than in the last two fiscal years. This is according to the analysis of the data the Ministry of Rural Development put out. Data until March 6 show that the average Days of employment under the Act was 45 in FY23. An extrapolation of the...
More »Bengal Govternment Cancels Over 14 Lakh Fake NREGA job Cards - Newsclick
A swarm of fake cards has rampaged the MGNREGA project or 100 Days of work in West Bengal. More than 1 million counterfeit job cards have been caught in West Bengal in the last year, and all of them have been cancelled. The nodal division in charge of the 100-Day project under the state’s Panchayat and Rural Development Department revealed. "The exact statistics of the total number of fake job cards...
More »In the Age of False News: a Murdered Journalist and an Unfinished Investigation in India - Forbidden Stories
In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore Days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case Phineas Rueckert & Srishti Jaswal - Forbidden Stories Oishika Neogi - Confluence Media Prajwal Bhat - Newsminute Laura Höflinger - Der Spiegel On September 5, 2017, as 55-year-old journalist Gauri Lankesh walked up to the entryway...
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