-The Hindu 14 parameters include mother tongue, place of birth of parents and last place of Residence. The latest form of the National Population Register (NPR) appears to have retained contentious questions such as “mother tongue, place of birth of father and mother and last place of Residence”, according to a document compiled by a committee under the Registrar General of India and shared with District Census officers. Though NPR was first compiled...
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Why Does Bonded Labour Still Persist in India? -Leaflet.in
-Leaflet.in/ Newsclick.in While we may have entered the 21st century, bonded labour is still a reality in India. Manav Gupta and Kashish Gupta analyse the laws in India to probondtect from bonded labour and comment on the inadequacy of State initiatives to curb this menace. Last month, a man was booked by police in Palghar district’s Mokhada for allegedly putting a tribal villager who had borrowed Rs. 500 from him into bonded...
More »Sarpanch Union marches to Punjab CM’s Residence over MGNREGA dues
-The Tribune Patiala: Members of the Sarpanch (Panchayat) Union of Punjab took out a protest march against pending MGNREGA payments and development works in rural areas, in Patiala on Monday. Amid rain, over 1,000 sarpanches, panches and their supporters gathered atthe PUDA ground and marched towards the CM’s Residence in the noon. The protesters said their demands weren’t heard by the ministers. Ravinder Singh Rinku (Gurney), state vice-president of the union, said,...
More »‘Restart Weekly Markets or Compensate for Livelihood Loss’: Street Vendors Protest in Delhi -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Street vendors have taken to the streets as they say they were pushed to poverty due to closure of weekly markets in the national capital. With bowls in their hands to signify destitution, thousands of street vendors took out a march on Saturday to the Residences of the Lieutenant Governor and the Chief Minster of Delhi, demanding permission to resume their vending business. These are mostly vendors who depend on the...
More »Sharad Pawar Meets PM Modi, Flags Amit Shah's New Ministry -Akhilesh Sharma and Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com Apart from meeting PM Modi, Sharad Pawar, 80, also wrote him a letter, flagging concerns on the Ministry of Cooperation. New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter's Residence. During the meeting which lasted for about 50 minutes, the veteran politician raised concerns about the newly-formed Ministry of Cooperation which is headed by Amit Shah, and farmers' issues, sources...
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