-The Indian Express Before contemplating new rural programmes, government must expand MGNREGA In the run up to the Elections, a plethora of redistributive programmes, including farm loan waivers, cash transfers and minimum income guarantees came to the forefront as campaigners sought to balm rural distress. Amongst these is a proposal to launch a revised NREGA 3.0, in which 150 days of employment would be guaranteed to the rural poor. Almost 15...
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An Estimated Rs 60,000 Crore Spent in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections: CMS Report -Prudhviraj Rupawat
-Newsclick.in The report released today by the Centre for Media Studies has estimated these Elections as the most expensive Elections held ever; BJP spent about 45% of the total expenditure. With an estimated Rs 60,000 crore front-end expenditure, the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha Elections is the most expensive Elections held ever, according to a report by Centre for Media Studies (CMS), a premier research organisation. The report estimated that Rs 700...
More »Over 4 Crore Are Jobless Now, Much More Than Earlier -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Unemployment is estimated at 9.35% in 2019 by CMIE, far worse than the PLFS/NSSO estimate of 6.1% for 2017-18. Finally, the government has released the suppressed report on unemployment, now that Elections are done and dusted with. Meanwhile, joblessness has worsened dramatically with an estimated 4.17 crore people unemployed, according to another recent report of the CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy), based on a similar sample survey. The government had directed...
More »Free birth, death papers for south Delhi residents -Paras Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With parties gearing up to enter ‘election mode’ for assembly Elections, politicians are not leaving any stone unturned to woo voters. The BJP-led south corporation has cleared the proposal to make the process of issuance of birth and death certificates free of cost. According to the proposal, the certificates will be available via websites and through zonal offices without paying any charges. The move, if implemented,...
More »Congress begins booth-level study to assess poor results, EVM doubts -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Congress has initiated booth-wise analysis of votes nationally to check the polling trend at the bottom most rung to get a fix on what went horribly wrong in its calculations in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. In an urgent directive on Saturday, the party asked all its Lok Sabha candidates to send their Form 20 issued by the Election Commission to the party headquarters. The form...
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