-Hindustan Times The government has cleared a Rs 950-crore plan to untangle the Aadhaar-national population register jumble inherited from the UPA government. The census commissioner, tasked with creating NPR, will conduct a nationwide door-to-door survey over the next one year to link the population database with the 12-digit unique identification number, better known as Aadhaar. Home minister Rajnath Singh approved the plan in June-end, sources said. At each stop, enumerators — who will...
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SECC reveals two Indias, but government refuses to disclose caste data -Iftikhar Gilani
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-The Hindu Thanks to the caste system, India has always been an unequal society. What is even more worrying is that inequality appears to have deepened in the past two decades The Boston Consulting Group’s 15th annual report, “Winning the Growth Game: Global Wealth 2015”, has received extensive coverage in the Indian media. The report comes on top of the Global Wealth Databook 2014 from Credit Suisse, which provides a much more...
More »Fearing action, over 1,400 schoolteachers resign -Madhuri Kumar
-The Times of India PATNA: Over 1,400 primary schoolteachers have resigned till date apprehending legal action for allegedly taking the job on fake educational certificates. "We expect more teachers to resign by July 9, the deadline set for doing so to escape punishment," said Vinodanand Jha, OSD to principal secretary, education department, on Thursday. The resignations follow the Patna high court directive to the state government on Monday last week to ask...
More »73 per cent of households live in rural India -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu Census shows that the bulk of rural households subsist on very low incomes Around 73 per cent of households in India are rural, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data released by the government on Friday. Of these, 18.5 per cent and scheduled caste households and 11 per cent belong to the scheduled tribe category. The SECC, jointly released by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Rural Development,...
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