-TheWire.in The Union government submitted before Delhi high court that PM CARES Fund is “not a fund of Government of India and the amount does not go in the Consolidated Fund of India”. While there is enough information already in the public domain to assert that PM-CARES Fund (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation Fund) is controlled by the Government of India, the Union government still wants to maintain...
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Supreme Court questions ₹8 lakh income limit for EWS quota
-The Hindu Bench asks Centre to file affidavit explaining the “basis” on which the amount was arrived at . The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to explain how it zeroed in on the figure of ‘₹8 lakh’ as the annual income criterion to identify Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) among forward classes of society for grant of 10% reservation in medical admissions under the all India quota (AIQ). The Supreme Court’s query...
More »Judge Who Slammed Cops For "Callous" Delhi Riots Cases Probe Transferred
-PTI/ NDTV The observation came during the hearing of a northeast Delhi riots case after one policeman identified three alleged rioters but another said that they could not be identified during the investigation. New Delhi: A trial judge, who has been critical of the "callous and farcical" probe of Delhi police in some riots cases of 2020 and had once observed that failure to conduct a proper investigation will torment "sentinels of...
More »29 million students don’t have access to devices: Govt report -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times According to the data, as many as 29.6 million students from 19 states and five UTs were found to be without digital devices during the surveys conducted by these states and UTs. A report released by Union education ministry on Wednesday said that 29 million school students do not have access to digital devices as per data collected from 24 states and Union Territories (UTs) until June -- data that...
More »3,197 schools in Odisha have just one teacher, reveals UNESCO report
-The New Indian Express The UNESCO report states that in Odisha, all recruitment so far have been indirect, conducted via promotions and regularisation of the existing contractual teachers. BHUBANESWAR: AS many as 3,197 schools across Odisha - both government and private - are functioning with just one teacher. Worse, 88 per cent (pc) of these schools are located in rural Odisha. This has been revealed by UNESCO in its ‘No Teacher, No...
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