-PTI NEW DELHI: A Niti Aayog panel on agriculture is likely to submit its final report, containing suggestions to re-invigorate farm and allied sectors, by the month-end. "The task force on agriculture headed by ARVind Panagariya (Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman) is likely to submit its final report by month-end after completing its consultations with states," a source said. Please click here to read more. ...
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Kejriwal government fails colonies awaiting a legal tag
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after taking power in the Capital a year ago pledged support for people living in unauthorised colonies and slum clusters, adopting a strong stand against demolition of such structures without proper rehabilitation. But the ARVind Kejriwal-led government has failed to turn around the fortunes of the residents of these bustling neighbourhoods, many of them with no legal electricity or water supply. Analysts say lack...
More »HC stays Kejri ban on school quota
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Delhi High Court today stayed a ban on management quotas in private schools clamped by the ARVind Kejriwal government, paving the way for admissions to resume in 2,500-odd institutions. In its interim order, the court referred to an earlier judgment that such quotas could only be abolished by passing a law, not through an "office order" of the kind the AAP government had issued. The court also upheld 11...
More »Budget 2016: boost likely for job schemes -Arup Roychoudhury
-Business Standard Also for other programme impacting the non-urban economy, in the wake of two years of partial drought The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) seems likely to get its highest budgetary allocation since its launch a decade before. This allocation for 2016-17 could cross the previous highs of Rs 40,100 crore in the 2010-11 Budget and Rs 40,000 crore in 2011-12, by then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. Actual spending...
More »Death as a Dalit: What Rohith Vemula’s suicide tells about India -Dhrubo Jyoti
-Hindustan Times A Dalit scholar at the University of Hyderabad killed himself on Sunday night, nearly two weeks after he and four other students were suspended by authorities and thrown out of the hostel, triggering charges of casteism. The students were on a protest strike in front of the hostel since the expulsion that followed an argument and scuffle between members of some campus groups and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. That strike has...
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