-ThePrint.in The Right to Information gives way to the government’s duty to publish. The Centre and all states must emulate Rajasthan. When the Right to Information Act came into force in Rajasthan in 2000, and nationally in 2005, there was a flush of stories for years about citizens and activists using the new law to expose corruption. That road built only on paper, the money released on files that never reached the...
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'It is cheaper to ride motorbikes than take buses in Indian cities' -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Poor hit the most hit by an inaccessible public transport system, says India Exclusion Report 2018-19 Half of the poor in Indian cities walk or cycle down to work because of problems in the public transport system, suggests the India Exclusion Report 2018-19. The existing public transport system is expensive and has limited routes, says the annual report released by Delhi non-profit Centre for Equity Studies. As a result,...
More »NRC: Assam government to table figures of Bengali Hindus excluded from final list
-Scroll.in Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the CAG of India had found ‘huge irregularities’ in the updation process of the NRC three years ago. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government on Thursday said it will make public the district-wise figures of Bengali Hindus excluded from the final National Register of Citizens list in the current Assembly session, PTI reported. The Assam government had earlier urged the Centre to reject...
More »Bad loans under Mudra Kishore jump 107% in six months -Shyamlal Yadav
-The Indian Express 12 PSU banks data reveal smallest ticket size Shishu loans fare best. New Delhi: THE number and value of bad loan accounts in the Kishore category of the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) for a dozen public sector banks including State Bank of India, Canara Bank and Bank of Baroda, have jumped 107 per cent and 71 per cent, respectively, as on September 30, 2019 compared with March...
More »Now India's official statistics will be suspect
-The Telegraph Refusal to face up to economic problems will tarnish India’s reputation as an economy and a democracy The Narendra Modi-led government has done it again. The Centre has scrapped the all-India survey on household consumption expenditure conducted by the then National Sample Survey Office. A few months ago, the government had refused to make public the official survey conducted on employment in India. There was considerable pressure exerted by economists...
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