Blames FCI’s internal bureaucracy for resisting reforms Much to the dismay of several NGOs that want strengtheNINg of the public distribution system (PDS) in India, the World Bank in its latest report has favoured cash transfers. “In the medium to long term, the report recommends offering households the option of a cash transfer while continuing food-based support for specific situations…,” the bank said in the report titled ‘Social Protection for a Changing...
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Bengal has most criminal MLAs; TN most crorepatis
The West Bengal assembly tops the list of criminal candidates and it has 102 such MLAs. Most of these MLAs have criminal serious charges pending against them. Among the other three assemblies -- Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Assam -- which have been analysed by the National Election Watch, the richest assembly is (without a doubt) Tamil Nadu. The report on Kerala assembly is still awaited. It has 120 crorepati candidates in the...
More »Land acquisition for Posco resumes by Priya Ranjan Sahu
Amidst protest from anti-Posco activists, Orissa government on Wednesday resumed land acquisition work for Korean steel major’s proposed $12,000 (Rs 54,000 crore) steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district, following union ministry for environment and forest’s final forest clearance to the project on May 2. Jagatsinghpur collector NC Jena said the teams comprising officials from the revenue department and Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IIDO) were involved in the land acquisition process....
More »Centre has no say in oil prices, says FM
-The Telegraph The Trinamul Congress was silent on the petrol price hike for the second day, its leaders only saying that Mamata Banerjee would speak on the issue. While Trinamul is still working on its response to the Rs 5 rise that the Left has pounced on to attack the UPA government, of which the party is a key member, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the Centre could not be...
More »Eye on RTE, govt plans multi-storey schools by Maroosha Muzaffar
Breaking away from the two-storey norm for school buildings, the Education department has commissioned the construction of four-storey schools. The move is aimed at accommodating “more children in the schools” and fighting the shortage of land in the Capital. A senior official in the Education department told Newsline, “We have asked the construction agency to build schools that have more capacity. We are asking them to increase the storeys to three, or...
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