-ThePrint.in Social justice ministry noted that its field report indicated a deepening of caste division within village communities over segregation of workers into SCs, STs and others. New Delhi: The Modi government’s controversial decision to split wage payments along caste lines under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been withdrawn and the earlier system of payment from a single account has been restored, ThePrint has learnt. The move made...
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-The Telegraph A total of 19 per cent or 11.16 lakh teaching positions in schools lie vacant in the country; 69 per cent of these are in rural areas According to the 2021 State of the Education Report for India: No Teachers, No Class, 1.1 lakh schools in India have just one teacher. Even more worrying is the fact that the problem is especially acute in districts with high representations from scheduled...
More »Workers Welfare Fund Bill passed by Kerala Assembly
-The New Indian Express The Kerala assembly on Tuesday passed the bill that gives legal validity to the welfare scheme for the workers of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Assembly on Tuesday passed the bill that gives legal validity to the welfare scheme for the workers of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Kerala Employment Guarantee Workers’ Welfare Fund bill was unanimously passed by the assembly. The...
More »What does SAS tell us about India’s animal farms? -Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times HT has analysed unit-level data from the latest Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (SAS) to answer some of these questions. Have tractors finally replaced bullock carts and private dairies the milk-animal in the Indian farmer’s house? Vigilante groups (“gau rakshaks”) claiming to be protecting cows have been making news (for the wrong reasons) in the past few years in India....
More »Farmers in eastern India see little hope in protest -Priscilla Jebaraj and Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu They have not got many of the benefits that the new laws threaten to take away. As the movement against the agricultural reform laws builds towards its one year anniversary, it is clear that the bulk of farmers in eastern Indian States have not been as motivated to join the agitation as their counterparts in the northwest, as they have not even experienced many of the benefits that the laws...
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