-The Times of India The labour ministry has written to the finance ministry recommending that the minimum monthly pension for members of the Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) be raised to Rs 1,000 per month. Who will fund the additional Rs 539 crore per year that this will cost, the government or workers, however remains a fraught issue. The EPFO currently has 35 lakh pensioners as its subscribers, of whom 7 lakh...
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'Demonetisation of Notes Won't Help Curb Black Money'
-PTI Demonetisation of high denomination currency notes like Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 may not help curb black money which is largely held in the form of benami properties, bullion and jewellery, a Finance Ministry report says. "One common demand from the public is that high denomination currency notes, particularly Rs 1,000 and Rs 500, should be demonetised", says a committee headed by the CBDT chairman in its report to the Finance...
More »Unemployment dole on the way out in State?-KPM Basheer
-The Hindu Unemployment dole, introduced in Kerala in 1982, the first State to do so, could soon be a thing of past if Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has his way. “We need to rethink on the unemployment dole as it does not serve any purpose now,” Mr. John toldThe Hindu . The government spends Rs.50 crore a year on the unemployment assistance scheme and there are roughly 3.5 lakh people getting...
More »The More They Change-Panini Anand
-Outlook Kejriwal’s original experiment in Sundar Nagri lies in tatters It was the summer of 2002. An IRS officer on study leave from the Income Tax department would travel daily to the slums of Sundar Nagri, in the north-east district of Delhi, close to the Uttar Pradesh border. Working with friends, he aimed to make the locality a powerful example of people’s empowerment. He was then an unknown; now, everyone knows...
More »TB services hit in Manipur as contract employees go on strike-Iboyaima Laithangbam
-The Hindu They are protesting salary deduction Malaria and TB treatment is seriously affected in Manipur following a strike by contractual employees. The worst hit are the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and sputum microscopy programmes. T. Lenindro, general secretary of the All Manipur RNTCP Contractual Workers’ Welfare Union, toldThe Hindu that though the contractual appointment of 116 employees of the RNTCP from March 2012 to...
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