-The Hindu Business Line Says shift to rice will help mitigate scarcity-like situation amid dip in wheat procurement The Centre has revised allocation of rice and wheat for 12 States under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) by asking Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Kerala to shift to rice for their entire grain requirement. For others, the reduction in the quantity of wheat will be compensated with the same amount...
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Health Stack is harder to roll out than Aadhaar: RS Sharma -Shouvik Das
-Livemint.com Aadhaar has only two parties—the government and citizens, but ABDM involves multiple entities NEW DELHI: Ayushman Bharat Digital MISsion (ABDM), which seeks to build a technology backbone for digital health infrastructure in India, is “much more difficult" to build than Aadhaar, according to Ram Sewak Sharma, chief executive of the National Health Authority (NHA). Speaking at the Mint AI Summit 2022 held in New Delhi on 29 April, Sharma explained that while...
More »Audit report indicates gross MISuse, presumptive fraud of DMFT fund in Jharkhand
-ANI/ ThePrint.in Ranchi (Jharkhand): An audit of the District Mineral Foundation Trust fund, collected under the provision of the Mines Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, indicates gross MISuse of the DMFT fund. The audit was conducted by the Jharkhand’s Principal Auditor General (PAG) in six districts, Bokaro, Chatra, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, Lohardaga and Ranchi. In these districts, a sum of about Rs 3,000 crore was collected as DMFT funds between 2015 and 2021....
More »Covid MISmanagement worsened unemployment problem -Santosh Mehrotra
-Deccan Herald What the 2020 annual Periodic Labour Force Survey data reveals is that the situation remains grim The Covid-19 pandemic has only worsened what was already a joblessness crisis in early 2020. The third annual labour force survey (2019-20) by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), covering the period till June 30, 2020, told a grim story. Earlier, the NSSO had in 2017-18 reported that open unemployment had reached a 45-year...
More »Mitanins: The women who kept Chhattisgarh safe during the COVID-19 pandemic -Ravleen Kaur
-Down to Earth The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been MISusing their sense of social commitment 50-year-old Saraswati Kaushik’s day starts at 5 am. After preparing food for the family and an hour or two of farm work, she goes for home visits in her ‘para’ (locality) to check on pregnant mothers, infants, kids below five years of age, elderly people in need of treatment...
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