-The Hindu The Centre’s taking up the burden for free food grain distribution in 2023 will provide relief to States The Government has decided not to extend the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, (PMGKY), a scheme that ran between April 2020 to December 2022 (except for a short period in between), and provided additional allocation of food grains, i.e., rice or wheat from the central pool at five kilograms a month...
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Gig workers: Long hours, little pay, scant security -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Delivery team, beauticians’ lives ruled by phone calls and sprints to customers New Delhi: The company Pinki Saini began working for in 2018 did not pay her. Instead, she paid the company for letting her work for it. When she started the job as a beautician with Urbanclap — now known as Urban Company — Pinki says she had to pay the firm a “joining fee” of Rs 4,000. She also...
More »73 species critically endangered in India, says Centre in Rajya Sabha -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times The 73 species include nine species of mammals, 18 birds, 26 reptiles and 20 amphibians, according to IUCN criteria. New Delhi: Seventy-three species in India are critically endangered, the Union environment ministry informed the Rajya Sabha citing a report of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), up from 47 in 2011. The 73 species include nine species of mammals, 18 birds, 26 reptiles and 20 amphibians, according to IUCN...
More »MGNREGA workers in West Bengal have not received wages since December 26, 2021
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated December 26, 2022 * Centre withheld over Rs. 7,500 cr funds, Rs. 2,744 cr due to NREGA workers * Centre hasn’t sanctioned labour budget for 2022-23 * Loss of around Rs. 3,891-Rs. 6,046 crores of NREGA wages this FY due to stoppage of work * Average days of work for the current year dropped to meagre 23 from 63.46 days (pre-covid) and 49.96 days (post-covid) Victimisation of workers: MGNREGA...
More »Centre makes digitally capturing MGNREGA attendance universal from January 1 -Sobhana K Nair
-The Hindu The directive comes even as many complaints and loopholes pointed out earlier by users of the pilot app-based project have not been plugged yet Digitally capturing the attendance of workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) has been made universal by the Centre from January 1, 2023. The Union government, arguing for transparency and accountability in May 2021, had started a pilot project to capture attendance...
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