-The Hindu 37% of rural children have dropped out, says report of study on 15 States The prolonged closure of primary and upper primary schools during the pandemic months has LED to “catastrophic consequences” for school students, particularly in rural India, says an emergency report. Based on the School Children’s Online and Offline Learning (SCHOOL) survey conducted by researchers, who worked in coordination with eminent economist Jean Dreze, the ‘Emergency Report on School...
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Rs 360 crore scam in the making of NRC: Assam NGO -Kaushik Deka
-IndiaToday.in The NGO, whose PIL in Supreme Court LED to the update of NRC, now claims financial irregularities in the process Two years after the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published in Assam, an allegation of large-scale financial irregularities in the process of preparing the document have surfaced. The allegation has been levelLED by Assam Public Works (APW), the NGO that first fiLED a PIL in the Supreme Court demanding update,...
More »'UP: About 45,000 MGNREGA Workers to Reach Lucknow on Sept 1 Protesting Against Low Wages, Regularisation' -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in About 45,000 contractual workers have been working under MGNREGA for the last 14 years and most of them are in a vulnerable situation due to the negligence of the government. Many workers are committing suicide due to financial constraints or due to a lack of medical care...' Lucknow: Having not had a since increase in their honorarium over four and a half years of the Yogi Adityanath-LED Uttar Pradesh government, around...
More »Modi govt’s monetisation scheme is nothing but a scam being paraded as a plan, cleverly camouflaged in jargon -CP Chandrasekhar
-National Herald It is a scheme to engineer a transfer of income and wealth to those at the apex of the wealth pyramid. It is just a way to hand over wealth created with public money over decades to corporates Camouflaged In jargon that speaks of ‘monetisation of de-risked assets’, the BJP-LED NDA government has announced its plan to sell out India’s public sector. In that plan, assets ranging from roads, ports,...
More »Why the CAG has raised questions about the Yogi Adityanath government’s spending on Kumbh 2019 -Ashish Misra
-IndiaToday.in Irregularities worth hundreds of crores have been flagged in a CAG report on preparation works for Kumbh 2019, the most expensive public event in Uttar Pradesh’s history Lucknow: On August 19, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) fiLED a report on the Yogi Adityanath government’s arrangements for the Kumbh Mela 2019 in Prayagraj. The report was presented by Principal Accountant General B.K. Mohanty. It highlighted irregularities worth hundreds of crores of...
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