-TheWire.in Apart from subsuming all earlier Central and state schemes under the PMUY to boost numbers, a major proportion of scheme beneficiaries cannot afford to use gas despite getting a free connection. New delhi: The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) is one of the flagship schemes of the Narendra Modi government. Officially launched on May 1, 2016, the government regards it as one of its greatest success stories. The official claim is...
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If India Produces More Foodgrains Than It Needs, Why Are People Still Starving? -Aditi Goyal
-TheWire.in It is set law that procedures cannot impact vested substantive rights – and the right to life and correspondingly, food, is the most substantive of all rights. “After a prolonged decline, world hunger appears to be on the rise again”, claims a report titled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2017)’ by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN. Nowhere is this more true than in...
More »Only 9% Of Declared Income of India's National Parties Comes From Sources Known To The Public -Aman Kumar
-TheCitizen.in NEW delhi: The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on August 7 released a report detailing the donations declared by regional political parties to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2016-17 financial year. Of the 48 parties considered in the report, 16 including the People’s Democratic Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen have yet to submit their declarations to the EC. A further six claim to have received no contributions at...
More »India ageing faster than we thought, shows data -Sushmi Dey
-The Time of India NEW delhi: India is greying faster than previously projected, even though it fares better than other Saarc countries and China. The government has disclosed that the number of people above 60 will rise to around 340 million by 2050. The number, revealed by junior minister for health Anupriya Patel in the Lok Sabha, is higher than projections made by the United Nations (UN) and other agencies, which also...
More »237 tigers die in 2 years
-The Telegraph New delhi: As many as 237 tigers died in the past two years and 23 per cent of the deaths between 2012 and 2017 were caused by poaching, the government said on Friday. However, the government asserted that unnatural deaths "have not had an impact on tiger numbers, which are growing at the rate of 5.8 per cent per annum". "In 2016, 122 tigers died across the country while 115 died...
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