-IndiaToday.in According to sources, a police notice was sent to the owner of the site on January 11. The notice stated that in survey no. 35/2 in Kariyammana Agrahara near Bellandur Lake, there were illegal sheds and possible Bangladeshis present. Bengaluru: Lalitha hails from Raichur and Karanna from Koppal in Karnataka. They stand in front of us showing their Aadhaar Cards demanding to know why their makeshift homes have been demolished by...
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Use of electoral bonds for Delhi polls worries activists -Damini Nath
-The Hindu Rue the use of unaccounted money in next month’s Assembly elections New Delhi: Activists Working for electoral reforms said they were disappointed on Monday when the Supreme Court declined to stay the electoral bond scheme of the government, saying that the anonymous donations to political parties through these bonds could continue for the Delhi Assembly elections next month. A founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), which had filed a...
More »One state, one ration card: MP reforms its Aadhaar-enabled PDS, helps migrant Workers -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express Madhya Pradesh government has now found a solution. Under the Aadhaar-enabled PDS, the respective grain quota is given to the nominee after verification of his biometric details. It’s not uncommon for beneficiaries of the public distribution system (PDS) to miss out on their quota of monthly food grains for reasons ranging from disability to old age to failure of the biometric verification system. But the Madhya Pradesh government has now...
More »Nearly half a billion people can't find decent Work; unemployment set to rise: new UN labour report
-United Nations News Around half a billion people Work fewer paid hours than they would like, or are not getting enough access to paid Work, shows a study published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Monday, which also forecasts that unemployment will rise by about 2.5 million this year. After nine years of relatively stable global unemployment, the World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020 puts the rising jobless numbers down...
More »Usharmukti project: A confluence of institutions for rejuvenating rivers -Ashwini Kulkarni
-IdeasforIndia.in Usharmukti, a project of the Government of West Bengal, is being carried out in collaboration with civil society organisations in the western part of the state, to carry out watershed activities under MNREGA to conserve soil and water. In this note, Ashwini Kulkarni describes the main idea behind and Working of the innovative project from her visit to the project area. When a farmer says that with potato in Rabi season...
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