-The Times of India CHENNAI: The fate of 28 students of Doveton Higher Secondary School in Kilpauk, expelled on Monday for not paying the"excess fee", remains uncertain. The school's Student Parent Welfare Association (SPWA), which has been protesting against the"arbitrary fee hike" for the last three years, said the problem began in 2010 when the fee was more than doubled. After several negotiations with the management and complaints to some government officials,...
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Union Cabinet approves regulator for real estate, lays down norms to help home buyers
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a legislation to set up a long-pending real estate regulator aiming to protect home buyers from unscrupulous developers and builders. A real estate regulator - to be set up in every state - will ensure that private developers get all their projects registered with it before sale and only after obtaining all necessary clearances. "It will be mandatory for developers under...
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-The Business Standard Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the launch of the second phase of the Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana, ahead of the Centre's proposed food security legislation. Edited excerpts of an interview with Sanjay Jog: * What are the key features of the second phase of the Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana (MAY), launched from this month? This will benefit 35 million people, including 5.5 mn below the poverty line...
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-The Business Standard Ranchi: Jharkhand could qualify for more funds than the Rs 1,500-crore earmarked as labour budget under MGNREGS, if the state pulled up its socks and honoured deadlines while executing the Centre's flagship scheme this fiscal. The word came from Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh who reviewed the job programme and action plans for Saranda and Sarju areas among other things at the Project Building in Ranchi today. "Of the...
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-Frontline Despite the negative observations and criticisms, there is a strong case for MGNREGS works to be continued even in States with high per capita incomes. Hisar and Fatehabad: CONTRARY to general opinion, demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is high in Haryana. Contrary also to the views in recent discussion papers, one of them commissioned by the Commission for Agricultural Cost and Prices...
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