-The Hindu To ensure transparency, the Union Government had made it mandatory for all State Governments to use the mobile application to record attendance of workers Five months after the Union Government's order making it mandatory to capture attendance of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers through government mobile application-National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) at work sites where 20 or more workers are employed, at least three States —...
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The future of farmer producer companies could be brightened -Vijay Avinandan, Manmeet Kaur and Anuradha Saigal,
-Livemint.com Tackle deficiencies of capital mobilization, access to state provisions and women’s participation to boost FPCs across India. In 2017, the Indian government reaffirmed its commitment to reduce rural distress among nearly 93 million farming households through efforts to double farmers’ income. What has been remarkable is the emergence of farmer producer companies (FPCs) as a viable way of supporting this approach. The last two years have been tumultuous. Pro-market legislation introduced in...
More »No transparency, Accountability or Public Participation when ISA Approves Exploratory Deep-Sea Mining
-Press release by Mineral Inheritors Rights Association (MIRA) dated September 21, 2022 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) declares that the area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction (comprising the seabed, ocean floor and subsoil, excluding the water above) (the “Area”) and its resources, are the Common Heritage of Humankind. All rights in the resources of the Area are vested in humankind as a whole. UNCLOS provides...
More »ECI seeks restrictions on cash donations to political parties, writes to government
-PTI/ The Hindu Chief Election Commissioner suggests a slew of amendments to RP Act to increase transparency and accountability on part of candidate The Election Commission has proposed reducing anonymous political donations to ₹2,000 from ₹20,000 and cap cash donations at 20% or at a maximum of ₹20 crore to cleanse election funding of black money, sources said on Monday. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has written a letter to Union Law...
More »Delhi HC to hear pleas over legal status of PM CARES fund on January 31
-PTI/ The Hindu In July, the court had asked the Centre to file a ‘detailed and exhaustive’ reply on the petition by Samyak Gangwal seeking to declare the PM CARES Fund a ‘State’ The Delhi High Court on September 16 listed for hearing on January 31 pleas concerning the legal status of the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) under the Constitution and the Right...
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