-The Indian Express According to SECtion 126A of the RP Act, 1951, prediction of poll results is banned from the first day of voting till elections ends. In case of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, media houses have been advised to not carry any article or programme related to “dissemination of results” from 7 am on April 11 to 6.30 pm on May 19. New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) on...
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Implementation issues in 10% reservation -Parag A Pathak and Tayfun S?nmez
-The Hindu A well-designed assignment mechanism is vital for the quota for economically weaker SECtions to work A new Constitution amendment provides 10% reservation to individuals from economically weaker SECtions (EWS) in the general category for government jobs and educational institutions in India. This law raises several implementation questions. Under the law, EWS applicants may even find it harder to obtain positions. These problems can be addressed using the science of matching...
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-The Hindu Slowdown has widened across SECtors; the new government must hit the ground running A welter of data collectively and individually point to one worrying conclusion: economic momentum across SECtors is slowing in the widening absence of that key ingredient, demand. Domestic sales of cars, commercial vehicles and two wheelers all contracted in April, from a year earlier, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) has reported. The decline of almost...
More »In Punjab's labour hubs, workers are pleading for jobs at a third of the official minimum wages -Arjun Sharma
-India Spend/ Scroll.in India’s informal SECtor continues to reel from the impact of demonetisation and GST. Stress had put deep wrinkles on Balkara Singh’s forehead though he was just 32 years old. The daily wage worker, dressed in a faded blue sweater and jeans, has been coming to the Gol Diggi labour hub in southern Punjab’s Bathinda city every single day for the last five years to look for jobs. Since the end...
More »HC brings RWAs, registered societies under RTI ambit -Shilpy Arora
-IANS GURUGRAM (Haryana): The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued an order, directing all societies (RWAs and others) registered under Haryana Registration and Regulation of Society Act, 2012, to provide information to public under provisions of the RTI Act, 2005. According to the order, all documents filed by a registered society with the district registrar under 2012 Act are public documents and can be accessed by any citizen under provisions of...
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