The revised daily wage for NREGS workers is still lower than the minimum wages paid in several States. A CONTROVERSY seems to have surfaced between the Prime Minister's Office and the National Advisory Council (NAC) on the issue of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The NAC has been arguing for some time that there should be parity between wages under the National Rural Employment...
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Honesty is indivisible by Arun Kumar
Illegality in India today touches almost every economic activity. It is both systemic and systematic. The Indian ruling class faced its severest crisis of credibility in 2010. Its past caught up with it and skeletons and scams were spilling out of its closets. The scams have a symbiotic relationship with the black economy. The number of scams is growing and so is the size of the black economy, which has reached...
More »New twist to Binayak case by Aman Sethi
Intervention plea in High Court opposes bail to Dr. Sen At half past four in the evening on Tuesday, Justices T.P. Sharma and R.L. Jhanwal of the Chhattisgarh High Court were preparing to adjourn for the day when they were interrupted by an energetic lawyer with tousled grey hair. “Your Honour, we would like to file an intervention application to oppose bail in this case,” began Shailesh Ahuja, marking the latest...
More »Full facts about Thomas were not placed before panel: Vahanvati by J Venkatesan
Was palmolein case file given to selection committee, asks court The Department of Personnel did not place full facts about P.J. Thomas before the high-power committee that finalised his appointment as Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), Attorney-General (AG) G.E. Vahanvati told the Supreme Court on Thursday. The department did not mention about a charge sheet that was pending against him in a palmolein import case and that the Kerala government had granted...
More »CRZ violations to be identified by June by KS Sudhi
Coastal Zone Management Authorities alerted National authority to review the actions taken The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations in all States and Union Territories should be identified by June, according to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest. The Ministry alerted all the State governments and the State Coastal Zone Management Authorities regarding the decision on Thursday. Incidentally, the draft CRZ notification issued by the Ministry on September 15 last year had included the...
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