-Business Standard Limits funds to states under the scheme and still looking to reduce labour budget ratios The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had begun work on amending the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), restricting the coverage to a few backward districts, leaving out large portions of Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala from its ambit. The plan was eventually shelved after protests and a debate in...
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-The Hindu The inequities in infrastructure could not be starker. While several schools continue to deny the most basic sanitation facilities for poorer children, a select band of them dangle air-conditioned classrooms and dormitories and other accessories before the more affluent ones. Repeated knuckle-rapping by the Supreme Court over the years has evidently had little effect on State administrations, as the case of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana illustrates. In October...
More »PM, many MPs haven’t spent a rupee from MPLAD fund -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: More than eight months after the 16th Lok Sabha was constituted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his MP colleagues in the government, as well as most of the opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha have not utilized a single rupee from their designated MP Local Area Development fund. According to data sourced by TOI from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, MPs from only 10 out of...
More »Food insecurity acts -Brinda Karat
-The Hindu The Shanta Kumar Committee's recommendations to unbundle the Food Corporation of India are in tune with U.S.-led demands raised in the World Trade Organization The Shanta Kumar Committee report, released last week, on a range of issues relating to procurement, storage and distribution of food grains is not only deeply flawed in its reading of the situation on food security, but also short on facts. It was prepared under the...
More »Reject Shanta Kumar panel’s proposal to cut food security coverage, say social activists
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Flaying the Shanta Kumar panel's recommendations to reduce coverage of subsidised foodgrains from 67 per cent of the population to 40 per cent, food rights activists have urged the Modi government to reject the report, as it would mean going back on the BJP's election promises. The panel, headed by BJP MP Shanta Kumar, was constituted to recommend the restructuring the Food Corporation of India....
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