-OutlookIndia.com The principal economic advisor is confident of achieving GDP growth promised by finance minister Nirmala SITharaman in the budget but is also cautious that some external factors can derail the projections Automobiles and two-wheelers are seeing muted sales not because of a low-demand SITuation afflicting the sector, but because there is a supply-side issue about chips, principal economic advisor to the government Sanjeev Sanyal told Outlook Business. He also said that...
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Activists approach minister about alleged violation of RTE Act -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph The percentage of vacant seats across 24 districts in Jharkhand is very high and the SITuation being worse in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Seraikela-Kharsawan: Banna Jamshedpur: Crusaders of Right to Education campaign have approached state education minister Jagarnath Mahato about the alleged violation of RTE Act provisions by unaided private schools and to ensure their complete implementation in the next academic session (2022-23). “Recent surveys in Jharkhand have presented some troubling ground...
More »Social Sector Given Short Shrift in Budget -Rashme Sehgal
-Newsclick.in Major budgetary allocation cuts in crucial schemes for women, children and vulnerable sections are indicative of the government’s lopsided priorities. Finance Minister Nirmala SITharaman’s budget has helped reinforce one home truth -- that India is divided into the salaried section and a vast underbelly, including the middle class who have been edged into poverty due to job losses suffered during the COVID pandemic. Coming out of the pandemic’s ‘third wave’, issues of...
More »UP Elections: Unlike ‘Kairana Exodus’, Migration from Bundelkhand Not Made Poll Pitch -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in Primarily inhabited by the scheduled caste community, Bundelkhand is home to the most backward villages — where Yogi government's developmental schemes have not reached. NewsClick viSITs these villages to understand the electorate’s SITuation here. Banda (Uttar Pradesh): Village after villages wear a deserted look, with locks hanging on the doors of predominantly kutcha houses with bamboo, mud, thatch, straw and unburnt bricks walls and roofs made of straw or reeds, in...
More »Union Budget gives fillip to revive millet cultivation in state -Sharan Poovanna
-Hindustan Times During the Union Budget presentation, finance minister Nirmala SITharaman on Tuesday had announced that 2022-23 will be considered as the International Year of Millets. “Support will be provided for post-harvest value addition, enhancing domestic consumption, and for branding millet products nationally and internationally,” SITharaman had said. The government’s assurance will boost states like Karnataka which has moved in the direction to diversify and incentivise production of these super foods. Please click...
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