-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has slammed 12 states, including Bengal and Bihar, for not taking any steps yet to comply with a Supreme Court directive on compensating workers for delayed wages under the national job guarantee scheme. In a letter this week, the rural development ministry said this was "not an acceptable situation". The letter written by Aparajita Sarangi, the joint secretary handling the MGNREGA scheme, said 20 states had started...
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Gujarat ranks 20th among 21 states in girl child education -Himanshu Kaushik
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government may be making tall claims about its "Kanya Kelavani" and school enrolment drive, but a report shows the state has performed much poorly than other states in championing girls' education. The Sample Registration System-Baseline Survey 2014 reveals that Gujarat (with 73.4 per cent of girls in school) is at the 20th position among 21 major states, just a notch above Rajasthan (72.1 per cent)....
More »Bad blood: 2,234 get HIV after transfusion -Vidya Krishnan
-The Hindu No action taken against hospitals or blood banks, says RTI activist. In the last 17 months alone, 2,234 persons across India have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while getting blood transfusions. The maximum number of such cases — 361 — was reported from Uttar Pradesh due to unsafe blood transfusion practices in hospitals. Just last week, a three-year-old boy from Assam’s Kamrup district, admitted to the Gauhati Medical College...
More »Digital vans all set to take e-governance to rural areas -Yuthika Bhargava
-The Hindu 66 vans will go to 657 districts and cover 13 lakh km by March 2017 The government will roll out a new campaign on Monday under which 66 digital vans, equipped with Internet and audio-visual facilities, will go to 657 districts by March 2017 to increase awareness about various e-governance services in rural and semi-urban areas. “The aim is to reach out to more than 10 lakh citizens and register over 1.5...
More »At Rs 250/kg this black rice variety makes remote Assam farmers rich
-IANS Guwahati: Rice is generally white in colour, or is it? Black is the colour for over 200 farmers in Assam’s Goalpara district - and they are laughing all the way to the bank. Started by a single farmer in the district about four years ago, the cultivation of black rice has caught the fancy of more and more farmers who are turning to it instead of the traditional white rice. Young farmer...
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