-The Hindu Business Line Experts to decide on jabs for children, booster dose The Centre will wait for the expert view to decide on Covid vaccination for children and booster shots but focus on scaling up the pace of inoculation, with the Health Ministry on Friday impressing on 11 States to ramp up their effort. The States that are a cause of concern are Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Puducherry, Uttar pradesh,...
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As told to Parliament (December 22, 2021): Over 150 million households have jobs cards under MGNREGA
-Down to Earth All that was discussed in the House through the day More than 150 million households have job cards under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the country as of December 18, 2021, Niranjan Jyoti, minister of state in the rural development ministry, told the Rajya Sabha. Uttar pradesh had a maximum number of households having job cards (21,125,892) and Goa had a minimum number of households...
More »Witch hunting: 83% of Odisha's cases in six districts, says report -Priya Ranjan Sahu
-Down to Earth Most of the victims were targeted for “causing health issues or crop failure” Witch-hunts are still highly prevalent in 12 of Odisha’s 30 districts — especially Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Malkangiri, Gajapati and Ganjam — a new report has claimed. Most victims of such superstitious practices were targeted for “causing health issues or crop failure”. Around 27 per cent cases were triggered by health issues in children, 43.5 per cent by...
More »As Uttar pradesh Heads to Polls, How Does the Yogi Govt's Economic Performance Hold Up? -Santosh Mehrotra
-TheWire.in Employment trends are dismal under the 'double engine government' of Modi and Adityanath. Several claims made in ads do not appear to hold up. Uttar pradesh’s per capita income was barely half (Rs 41,023) of India’s average (Rs 86,659) in 2019-20. The per capita income of UP (at 2011-12 prices) is ranked 32 out of 36 states and Union Territories. That the state’s economy has been one of the poorly performing...
More »Yogi Adityanath invokes ESMA, bans strikes in UP for 6 months: Report - Amit Chaturvedi
-Hindustan Times The decision has been taken in view of the prevailing Covid-19 situation. A notification was issued by additional chief secretary Dr Devesh Kumar Chaturvedi on Sunday, Livehindustan reported. The Yogi Adityanath government has banned strikes across the states for six months. A notification was issued by additional chief secretary Dr Devesh Kumar Chaturvedi on Sunday, Hindustan Times’ sister publication Livehindustan reported. It states that the strike is being banned in any...
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