-Outlook The Centre today told the Supreme Court that there has been large-scale violation in MNREGA implementation in Uttar Pradesh for which CBI probe has been sought by an NGO. Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising told a bench comprising Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai that details of the violation have been documented in the affidavit filed by the Centre. The ASG said the money which is released from the...
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Gujarat: Sifting fact from fiction -Yoginder K Alagh
-Live Mint Gujarat has grown faster than the national average—a point worth noting. But there’s no need for drumbeats Gujarat's economic performance has been facing great scrutiny ever since chief minister Narendra Modi emerged as one of the top prime ministerial candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). I have been asked to compare Gujarat's economic performance during the past decade with that in the past and separate fact from fiction...
More »No proposal to regularise contract workers: Govt
-PTI NEW DELHI: Despite the demand from the trade unions, the government today said there is no proposal to regularise contract workers. "There is no provision of regularisation under the Contract Labour (Regulations and Abolitions) Act 1970 and therefore, there is no proposal to regularise the contract workers," Minister of State for Labour and Employment K Suresh told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply. He said there are an estimated 18.44 lakh...
More »Manual scavengers want life of dignity, security -Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu New Delhi: Moni will never forget July 13, the last day she spent with her father Ashok. The following noon he went inside a drain sewer in the basement of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi and did not return. Hit by the poisonous rush of gases, Ashok and two of his colleagues died on the spot. Till date there has...
More »The poverty quibble-Latha Jishnu
-Down to Earth Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators-health, malnutrition and wages-continue to be grim. So how did the poor fare better? After a long, long time there was good news to splash as media led with the report of a record 21.9 per cent drop in poverty levels. The July 24 newspaper headlines were celebratory as they reported the Planning Commission's findings that poverty rates...
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