-The Hindu Business Line Ahmedabad: Ahead of the kharif sowing season, GujaRAT is facing a cash shortage as banks have started receiving lesser cash than required from the RBI. This has resulted in the RATioning of cash disbursements at several banks in parts of GujaRAT, mainly in the north. Banking sources confirmed experiencing cash shortage at the currency chest level from where the disbursement of cash takes place to the bank branches. There...
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SC/ST Act is like an umbrella, it ensures we are safe, say Mirchpur Dalits -Niha Masih
-Hindustan Times Despite a rare, legal victory, Dalits of Mirchpur are back on the streets — to fight for the SC/ST Act that helped them win a case seven years ago. Mirchpur, Hisar (Haryana): Gulab Singh, 80, is frail and bent with age. He hobbles around with a wooden stick at the makeshift camp he lives in, outside Haryana’s Hisar city. But on April 2, defying his body and age, he marched...
More »Supreme Court's dilution of SC/ST Act caused great damage: Govt -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre accused the Supreme Court of encroaching into the legislative domain while diluting the stringent arrest provision of the SC/ST ( Prevention of Atrocities) Act and appealed on Thursday for its restoRATion. The written submission by attorney general K K Venugopal on behalf of the Centre reflected the executive’s seething anger RATher than a dispassionate analysis of the March 20 judgment, which introduced anticipatory bail...
More »Delay in MGNREGA wage payment caused by non-processing of Fund Transfer Orders, say social activists
-Press Release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 11 April, 2018 Stagnant wage RATes are not the only rude shock that workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) received this month. Most of the them also remain unpaid for the work done by them in the past few months. Ninety-nine per cent of the Fund Transfer Orders (FTOs) for MGNREGA wage payments sent to the Public Finance Management...
More »Land acquisition for Bullet Train hits hurdle in GujaRAT -Aditi Raja & Kamal Saiyed
-The Indian Express Farmers and activists, who have jointly raised the issue with NHSRC say that they were given “no time” to prepare for the meetings nor are the railway officials presenting the report of impact assessment. Vadodara/ SuRAT: The National High Speed Rail CorpoRATion (NHSRC), which has begun its meetings with “stakeholders” to assess the social impact and damage from the ambitious Ahmedabad-Mumbai “bullet train” project, is facing protests from farmers...
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