-NDTV Lucknow: Some of India's biggest politicians contested and won the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh. But eight months later, they have not spent anything from their Local Area Development Fund (MPLAD). On the list of high-profile MPs from Uttar Pradesh who have spent not a rupee yet from their constituency funds are Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi,...
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Farmer deaths choking exchequer, UP eyes insurance firms to ease ‘burden’ -Mohd Faisal Fareed
-The Indian Express Lucknow: Having spent over Rs 1,100 crore from the state exchequer in the last two years to pay compensation to the kin of farmers who have committed suicide, the state government has now decided to rope in private insurance companies to streamline the scheme and share the burden. Till now, the state revenue department was paying Rs 5 lakh to the kin of each farmer who died of unnatural...
More »PM, many MPs haven’t spent a rupee from MPLAD fund -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India Lucknow: More than eight months after the 16th Lok Sabha was constituted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his MP colleagues in the government, as well as most of the opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha have not utilized a single rupee from their designated MP Local Area Development fund. According to data sourced by TOI from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, MPs from only 10 out of...
More »We are sucking up groundwater fast -Hamza Khan
-The Indian Express Lucknow: Indiscriminate extraction of groundwater is continuing unabated in Uttar Pradesh with the number of blocks over-exploiting the natural resource registering three-fold hike in seven years. Number of such blocks is now pegged at 111, as per the latest data compiled by the Uttar Pradesh Ground Water Department for 2011. The groundwater data is compiled by the department every two years and analysed, before being released. As per...
More »Child marriages still rampant -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Consent does not matter, says study A majority of parents who get their children married before the legal age do not even seek their consent, and among those who do, the child not consenting does not stop the marriage, new data has shown. In 2011, the Planning Commission selected the G.B. Pant Institute of Studies in Rural Development, Lucknow, for a study on child marriage in India. The 2005-06 National Family...
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