-Hindustan Times The budgetary allocations for Ujjwala, which is listed as money for “LPG connections to the poor” in the ministry of petroleum’s budget, was just ₹21,365.81 crore between 2016-17 and 2020-21. With the Prime Minister launching the second module of the Ujjwala Yojana from Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has, in a way, started its election campaign for the crucial state which goes to the polls in early...
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Centre admits to oxygen deaths in Andhra Pradesh -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu State reported death of some patients due to drop in oxygen pressure, as per preliminary inquiry, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informs Rajya Sabha The Union Health Ministry has for the first time admitted that some patients who were on ventilator support died while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 due to inadequate oxygen supply. Without specifying the exact number, Minister of State Bharati Pravin Pawar said in the Rajya...
More »New-age check dams built under MGNREGA cost less, give more -Rishikesh Bahadur Desai
-The Hindu The project is unique because the design consumes less concrete and the dams last longer than traditional stone masonry ones BELAGAVI: The State government is promoting construction of new generation check dams across natural streams, rivulets and other waterbodies under the MGNREGA programme. Over 5,000 multiple arch buttress check dams (MACD) have come up under MGNREGA, 1,820 in the last two years. The project is unique because the design consumes less...
More »Caste Continues to Haunt Children of Manual Scavengers -Shreya Bansal
-TheCitizen.in Society rejects them even when their fathers leave the job In a village in Odisha, 35 year old Tapan Kumar Gochchayat comes from a family of manual scavengers where his grandfather worked as a ‘safai karamchari’ all his life. Very early in life, Kumar decided not to go into the same profession. He worked hard to get an education and create a life of dignity for himself. But even today his...
More »Study Reveals Covid-Led Job Loss is Forcing People to Beg on the Streets of Delhi: Report
-News18.com Those forced to take up begging due to loss of work during the pandemic include women involved in domestic work, temporary workers in hotels, poverty unemployment. The latest study by Institute for Human Development (IHD) between February and April this year, by the Delhi government has revealed that more than half of those surveyed (52 per cent) are “new entrants” who have taken up begging during the past five years and...
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