-ThePrint.in Farmers, farm leaders, economists and policy makers would do well to study this scheme carefully as it shows a possible path to the future. Anew model? Or another fiasco in the making? I kept asking my colleagues and myself as we travelled across the semi-arid bajra growing belt of south Haryana. We stopped at a few mandis — Rewari, Kanina, Ateli, Narnaul, Dadari and Bhiwani — and spoke to farmers, adhatiyas...
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Around 5 crore MGNREGA workers and their families will have to spend their Diwali without food & sweets due to pending wages
-Press release by Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee dated 3rd November 2021 About 8 crore NREGA payments are pending as on November 3, 2021 according to Report 8.1.1 of the NREGA Management Information System (MIS). This means, for nearly 5 crore workers across the country this will be a Kali Diwali. Following the raging debate about NREGA funds running out with 5 months remaining, the People’s Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG)...
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-The Hindu ‘It can’t be a business as usual approach’ As almost 26 crore children return to physical classes after 18 months of school closures, a business as usual approach will lead to a deepening of existing educational inequity, warned the National Coalition on the Education Emergency in a report released online on Tuesday. The NCEE cited data from the recent SCHOOL survey conducted in 15 States, which showed that 72% of elementary...
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-PTI/ The Hindu The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the issue whether education is a service within the Consumer Protection Act. A bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and B.V. Nagarathna noted that a similar legal issue is pending adjudication in another case and tagged the matter along with it. "Having regard to the pendency of Civil Appeal No 3504 of 2020 (Manu Solanki and Others vs Vinayaka Mission University), the issue as...
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--TheLeaflet.in THE West Agartala police station sent a notice under Section 41 of the CrPC, informing advocate Mukesh, a lawyer based in Delhi, of the case registered against him u/s 13 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA). A similar UAPA notice has been sent to advocate Ansar Indori of the National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO). Both lawyers were part of a recent fact-finding team to Tripura. The...
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