-The Hindu The recent global recognition for India’s ASHAs should be used as a chance to iron out the challenges in the programme India’s one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) volunteers have received arguably the biggest international recognition in form of the World Health Organization’s Global Health leaders Awards 2022. The ASHAs were among the six awardees announced at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This World Health Organization (WHO)...
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NGT subordinate and can’t contradict high courts: SC -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Court quashed a Green Tribunal order that had stayed the construction of a resort by the Andhra Pradesh government on the Rushikonda Hills in Visakhapatnam New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the National Green Tribunal is subordinate in its jurisdiction to the high courts, which have a constitutional status. The NGT cannot pass orders contradicting those of the high courts as that would lead to an “anomalous” situation...
More »Caste 'Count', Not 'Census', in Bihar to Avoid Legal Complications: Nitish Kumar
-TheWire.in After an all-party meeting on June 1, the chief minister said all parties, including the BJP, unanimously supported the move and replied in the negative when asked if he faced any opposition. New Delhi: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday, June 1, said his government would carry out a caste-based “count” instead of a “census” to avoid legal complications. “We will propose a caste-based count, not census, to avoid legal complications,”...
More »Microphone, ink attack on Rakesh Tikait in Bengaluru -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Bharatiya Kisan Union leader was addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan when a man rushed to the dais, grabbed a mic and hit him Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was attacked with a microphone and had ink thrown at him amid alleged chants of “Modi, Modi” in Bangalore on Monday, foregrounding a contested claim that an attempt had been made to buy off some of those who took part in the...
More »Forget minimum wages, MGNREGA workers not even receiving notified wages in many states
Every year in the month of either February or March, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announces the notified MGNREGA wage rates (i.e., notified daily wage rates for MGNREGA workers) for various states and Union Territories (UTs) for the upcoming financial year. The MGNREGA rates are notified every year based on the increase in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). Like the previous years, in 2021 too, experts and civil...
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