-PTI/ The Hindu The demands included legal guarantee for MSP, withdrawal of cases against farmers and compensation for those who died during the agitation Terming the repeal of the farm laws in Parliament a victory of the protesters, farmer leaders from Punjab demanded a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) of crops and said an emergency meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha on December 1 will decide their future course of...
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Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana Extended Till March 2022, Says PM Modi
-ANI/ NDTV.com Earlier this year, the Centre approved further allocation of additional foodgrain to National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (Phase IV) till November. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that in a bid to bring relief to over 80 crore people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government is running Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana to provide free grains and the scheme has...
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-The Telegraph Those who have crossed the maximum advised gap between two doses of Covid vaccines are counted in the list of overdue doses, said another health department official There are more than 19 lakh people in Bengal who have not taken their second doses despite the due dates to take them getting over. Some of them have claimed that they took two doses at separate centres. But the authorities are not asking for...
More »Big Defaulters: When RBI Declines To Reveal to Parliament Details of Written-off Loans of Big Corporates
-MoneyLife.in While lenders harass individual or small borrowers to the point of even releasing the borrowers’ photos to the press for publishing them, it appears that big corporate defaulters are bestowed with immunity from such humiliation. They are a protected species. In fact, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) even declined to reveal to the Lok Sabha the details of loans written off of major corporates. In a written reply, Dr Bhagwat Karad,...
More »One square meal: How this non-tribal forest-dweller family survives without FRA recognition in Odisha -Sanghamitra Dubey and Ravisha Poddar
-Down to Earth Srikumar Khadi’s claim to his land in Odisha’s Sundergarh district is over a century old; but it still awaits recognition Srikumar Khadi’s great-grandparents moved to Bhuin-Jor from Dhamakpur in Odisha’s Sundergarh district around 100 years ago. They were offered a small piece of land in the forest by Bhuin-Jor’s inhabitants. They settled in the forest with the passage of time and started using the land as a homestead. They also...
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