-ThePrint.in A total of 32.26 lakh loans were disbursed under the PM SVANidhi scheme between June 2020 & May 2022, according to data revealed by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. New Delhi: Only 0.01 per cent street vendors belonging to minority communities have benefitted from the Centre’s PM SVANidhi scheme between June 2020 and May 2022, an Right To Information (RTI) query has revealed. A total of 32.26 lakh loans...
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Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts -Sushmita
-India.Mongabay.com * The allocation of lands for new commercial coal mines is likely to renew issues related to the creation of land banks in Jharkhand. * Common lands that people use have been transferred to land banks over the years, and physical surveys to record actual rights aren’t complete yet. * Lack of effective implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 on forest land (also part of land banks) has been a major...
More »The cost of misrepresenting inflation -Pulapre Balakrishnan and M Parameswaran
-The Hindu The inadequacy of monetary policy to address food-price-driven inflation has been recently flagged Globally, inflation is now the prime concern of governments, even as there is a speculation that a recession may not be far behind. In India, though, government agencies regularly announce that the country is growing at a much faster rate than most economies and presently assert that inflation is much lower. The growth performance is not so...
More »Windfall tax on corporations goes as 5% GST on food items kicks in -Prasanna Mohanty
-Cenfa.org In continuation of its pro-corporate and anti-poor tax policy, the Centre imposes tax on the common man battling hunger and inflation while sparing corporates making windfall gains and record profits In keeping with its anti-people and pro-corporate tax policy, the Central government withdrew the windfall tax on oil exports on July 19th – 19 days after it was imposed – with effect from July 20. This comes a day after a...
More »DNA Special: How the menace of illegal mining is harming India
-DNA India Between 2013 and 2017, over 4 lakh incidents of illegal mining were reported. The mineral wealth of the country is openly looted by mining mafia. What would you do if some people stole some items from your house? You would immediately go to the police against this and ask the police to find your stolen goods? Any person would do the same. But now imagine if some people steal the mineral...
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