-The Hindu In four States, auditors’ wages delayed as funds from Centre are yet to arrive The Union Rural Development Ministry (MoRD) has told States that failure to carry out social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) will invite action, including withholding of funds. However, it is the Centre that bears the administrative cost of these Social Audit Units, and inordinate delay in the release of funds...
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Why a row over eggs in childrens’ diets is raging again in Madhya Pradesh -Rahul Noronha
-IndiaToday.in Home minister Narottam Mishra has openly opposed the Shivraj Chouhan government’s decision to introduce chicken and egg in the diet of inmates at juvenile correction homes Bhopal: Opposition is building within the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh after the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government decided to introduce chicken and egg into the diet of inmates at juvenile correction homes in the state. In the past, the dietary choice of eggs in government-provided...
More »Are Loan Waivers Not 'Freebies' to Corporates, Asks DMK In Application Before SC
-TheWire.in In an application seeking to implead itself in the 'freebies' petition, the party said in its first three years, the Narendra Modi government wrote off loans worth Rs 72,000 crore of the Adani Group. New Delhi: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of Tamil Nadu, said the petition on “freebies” is politically motivated and asked if the BJP-led Union government’s move to waive off loans of companies is not...
More »Double trouble -Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph While the BJP and Opposition continue with their political machinations, the larger issues on the ground are these: climatic aberrations and consequent losses How are we supposed to deal with long, dry spells as well as sudden and extreme rainfall in the same season? Or drought in one state and floods in another,for that matter? While the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Opposition continue with their political machinations, the larger...
More »Near-Catastrophe At Madhya Pradesh's Karam Dam Brings Tender Scam In Focus Again -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com Karam Dam one of many being probed, BJP has said; wider scam pegged at ₹ 3,000 crore; minister says won't spare guilty "even if from our party" Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh's Karam Dam, at the centre of a near-catastrophe after cracks earlier this week, has been in the headlines for leaks earlier too — of public money, that is. Its part-collapse after heavy rain brings back into focus the e-tendering scam that...
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