-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: The Opposition on Wednesday accused the state government of perpetrating irregularities in the centrally-sponsored rural job guarantee scheme leading to embezzlement of an alleged 50% of the money earmarked for expenditure. Panchayati Raj minister Kalpataru Das rejected the allegations, saying Odisha was faring better than most states in implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme launched in 2005. He said so far 100.33 lakh families...
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Debt crushes bonded labourers in Kota’s quarries-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Kota, Rajasthan: The sun is about to set over grey-brown slabs in sandstone quarries in Kota district, Rajasthan. Babulal Khairwa sits at the edge of a quarry and attentively hits a taanki, a chisel shaped like a gigantic nail, placed on the stone with a hammer. Babulal hits the stone with the hammer till it cracks in a straight line. Each 2 by 10 square feet foot slab, or...
More »Dalits ‘barred’ from taking part in temple function -Kshitiz Gaur
-The Times of India AJMER: The old and evil order of casteism and untouchability refused to die down and recently reared up it's ugly head with dalits being prevented from taking part in a yagna for a temple inauguration, for which they too have contributed. The incident happened in an interior village, Dhaulat Khera, of Pisangan block in Ajmer district on Wednesday. Daulat Khera has about 450 households dominated by Jats, Rawats...
More »Three held for rape of Bhandara sisters
-The Hindu Bhandara: Three suspects were taken into custody “for interrogation” by the police on Wednesday in connection with the rape and murder of three sisters near Murmadi village in Bhandara district. “We cannot say they are culprits or suspects. We have rounded them up only for interrogation,” Bhandara Superintendent of Police Dr. Arati Singh told The Hindu . The police on Tuesday declared that the three sisters, who went missing on...
More »Varad Pande, Officer on Special Duty, Ministry of Rural Development interviewed by Samie Modak & Abhineet Kumar
-The Business Standard Varad Pande, officer on special duty, ministry of rural development, says the Aadhaar identification project aims to cover at least half of country’s population by next year. He talks about where it has reached, in an interview with Samie Modak & Abhineet Kumar. Edited excerpts: * What is the Aadhaar project’s status? The project started about two years earlier and now has a little more than 270 million enrolled, roughly...
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