-TheWire.in Figures highlighted in an RTI reply cut to the heart of a debate over the government’s assertion to count Mudra loan beneficiaries as employed. New Delhi: Struggling to deliver on the poll promise to create one crore jobs a year, the Narendra Modi government and the BJP may have found a face-saver in the flagship self-employment MUDRA scheme, launched under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) in 2015. However, three years in,...
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Budget 2018: Will Women Really Be Better Off at the End of This Fiscal? -Barkha Deva
-TheWire.in In the gender Budget, the Modi government has not done much more than pay lip service to policies that impact women. Soon after the Union Budget was presented, the PMO tweeted Modi as saying: “Special emphasis has been given on women empowerment in the Budget.” A high-voltage communication campaign followed highlighting key proposals for women, including an increase in commitments for the Ujjwala scheme to provide free gas connections to eight crore...
More »Only those not skilled enough lost jobs: Prasad
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday that only those people who did not enhance their skills lost jobs after demonetisation at a press meet in Bhopal on the eve of demonetisation. Prostitution, too, Prasad claimed, had declined. Replying to questions on demonetisation, the minister said, "There's a difference between job and employment. Only those who were not able to enhance their skills with...
More »Do not force us to do Aadhar seeding, it is against spirit of democracy: Largest bank officers' body -Arun Janardhanan
-The Indian Express In the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, public sector banks and regional rural banks have opened 29.13 crore accounts as against 96 lakh accounts by the private banks. Chennai: The All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC), the largest body representing over 3,25,000 officers, opposed the Centre’s move making Aadhaar mandatory and forcing bank officers to do Aadhar seeding. When the matter is subjudice in the...
More »On Government's Claims Of Creating 7 Crore Jobs, A Fact Check -Sreenivasan Jain and Manas Pratap Singh
-NDTV The government's reliance on the MUDRA scheme of lending to small businesses to create jobs has not had the kind of result being advertised. New Delhi: Facing heat for not being able to back its promises of job creation, the Centre and the BJP have repeatedly cited the success of its MUDRA scheme, an acronym for Micro Units Refinance and Development Agency, meant to promote lending to small businesses. Speaking earlier this...
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