-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is leveraging his politically 'unattached' status to seek higher wages for his people under the Centre's rural employment guarantee scheme. Kumar, being wooed by the Congress after he parted ways with the BJP, has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that the state plans to raise NREGA payments to align them with the statutory minimum wage. "Notification of lower wage rates...
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Poverty declines to 21.9% in 2011-12: Planning Commission
-PTI NEW DELHI: Poverty ratio in the country has declined to 21.9% in 2011-12 from 37.2% in 2004-05 on account of increase in per capita consumption, Planning Commission said. According to the commission, in 2011-12 for rural areas, the national poverty line by using the Tendulkar methodology is estimated at Rs 816 per capita per month in villages and Rs 1,000 per capita per month in cities. This would mean that the persons...
More »Political meddling proves toxic for pollution control boards -Meena Menon
-The Hindu Boards are understaffed, have little time for meetings, inspection or regulation, says study Mumbai: Environmental protection seems to be in shaky hands with political appointees nominated to head state pollution control boards (SPCB) in some places. In one case, the educational qualification of the chairperson was tenth standard. In Karnataka, for instance, the chairperson of the SPCB is Vaman Acharya, a senior BJP leader. In Himachal Pradesh, it is Kuldip Singh...
More »Central policy on Raj Bhavan incumbents sowing seeds of mistrust, say activists -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindustan Times Guwahati: Is it a coincidence that the militancy-mauled Northeast has had a large number of retired police, intelligence, army and paramilitary officers as governors? The first among them was general SM Shrinagesh, who took charge of undivided Assam in two phases, the first of which began in 1959. The separatism-troubled Naga Hills were then part of Assam. And now, former Delhi police commissioner KK Paul has replaced former BSF and...
More »Heavy rainfall triggers flood in Assam; 25 villages hit
-The Times of India JORHAT: Heavy and incessant rainfall in hills of Arunachal Pradesh has triggered the second wave of flood in Assam. More than 25 villages in Dhemaji district bordering Arunachal Pradesh have been hit by flood till Wednesday. No casualty has been reported yet. The villages have been affected by the rising waters of the Jiadhol and Gai rivers since Tuesday night. The water level of both the rivers swelled and...
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