-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Making the most of one last opportunity offered by the Election Commission to enrol themselves before the general elections, 74.56 lakh people turned out at 9.3 lakh polling stations across the country on March 9 to file their applications. EC sources said this is the highest number of Form 6, the application form an eligible voter is required to submit to be included in the rolls,...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 4645
Yavatmal: District of Farmers' Suicide -Prof. Madhav Sarkunde
-Boloji.com Yavatmal is one of 35 districts in maharashtra state in Indian subcontinent. It is located in the Vidarbha region, in the east-central part of the state. By the time of British rule, its head quarter was at Wani called Wun by then; now it is shifted to Yavatmal. This district is tribal dominated one. According to the 2011 census, total population of this district is 2,772,348 inclusive of 469,000 tribal...
More »56% women faced corruption in public services in a year: Study -Vanita Srivastava
-The Hindustan Times Over half of the women respondents (56%) shared that they or any member of the household experienced corruption at least once during the last 12 months, a study on access of women to certain basic and essential public services released on Friday said. The CMS-India Corruption Study (CMS-ICS 2013) focuses on access of women to certain basic and essential public services. CMS has been conducting regular studies on corruption...
More »Govt confirms MGNREGA wage delay suicides -Sandeep Pai
-The Hindustan Times A report commissioned by the ministry of rural development has confirmed the findings of an HT field investigation - published on December 29, 2013 - that delay in payment of wages under MGNREGA was a major contributor to suicides among workers in maharashtra. The report by the Committee of Experts (CoE) said: "Though the state government has made the claim that it is unfair to link the deaths...
More »Why women aren’t taking up farm jobs -Pramit Bhattacharya
-Live Mint Mint examines why millions of women are missing from farms, factories, colleges, and offices in India, which has one of the lowest ratios of working women in the world Mumbai: Every monsoon, minivans ferrying women labourers can be seen making their way from the small sleepy town of Wardha to Waifad village, 18 kilometres away. Urban workers from Wardha have come to occupy an integral part of Waifad's farm...
More »
