-PTI Pilot also made several other announcements including those for opening 50 retail outlets for the sale of bio-diesel and building several roads in the state. JAIPUR: Rajasthan has generated the largest number of man days, totalling 30.03 crore, of paid employment under the MGNREGA scheme among all states in the country, said Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot. Pilot made this revelation in the state assembly late Thursday night while replying to a...
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Govt Spent Most 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' Funds on Advertisements
-TheWire.in Government spending on advertisements has used up between 65% and 91% of the scheme's funds since 2016. New Delhi: The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) on Thursday admitted that a majority of funds allocated to the much-touted Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme was spent on advertisements instead of any concrete Work. Ever since the scheme was launched in 2015, prime minister Narendra Modi has sought to highlight his...
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-The Hindu Centre has proposed that the next phase of NPR will be conducted along with the first phase of Census between April to September 2020. The Registrar General of India (RGI) has asked all States to “give highest importance, attention and time” to the Census and National Population Register (NPR) Work as “the foundations of the statistics of the country” depend on them. In a 14-page letter, dated January 29 and addressed...
More »No pension for 5 months, Delhi's elderly construction Workers stare at hunger, debts -Bharat Dogra
-TheWire.in Caught in a quagmire of legislations, most construction Workers of a particular colony have had no money to deal with illnesses and daily needs. New Delhi: Mariam spent her younger days toiling as a construction Worker. When she could no longer Work as an elderly person, she got the benefit of a special pension meant for construction Workers. This pension of Rs 3,900 per month became the main source of her subsistence...
More »Aadhaar, no standout performer in welfare delivery -Praveen Chakravarty
-The Hindu Aadhaar-based biometric authentication did not reduce PDS leakages, finds Jharkhand-based empirical study “Aadhaar has curtailed leakages of government subsidies... Through Aadhaar, savings worth ₹90,000 crore have accrued to the government,” said Ajay Bhushan Pandey, then CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and current Revenue Secretary, in UIDAI’s 2017-18 annual report. But not so fast, say Professors Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukthankar. They have just published a...
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