-CNN-IBN Finance Minister P Chidambaram plans to get more income for the government by taxing the super-rich and the corporate sector even though he left untouched income tax rates and slabs. Chidamabaram allowed some relief for those who earn between Rs 2-5 lakh per year by announcing that they would be granted a tax credit of Rs 2000 and left most of the items untouched by not tinkering too much with...
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Let fast track courts try crimes against SCs, STs: NAC -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu ‘Wilful negligence’ by public servants should be defined better in 24-year-old law Dedicated fast track courts to try offences under the ScheduLED Castes and ScheduLED Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act should be set up, the Sonia Gandhi-LED National Advisory Council recommended on Tuesday, even as it suggested that “wilful negligence” by public servants be better defined in the 24-year-old law. The NAC would like the Rules to the Act amended to...
More »NAC members raise concerns over direct benefit transfer scheme-Anuja & Liz Mathew
-Live Mint Concerns raised over the efficiency of banking networks and on-the-ground preparations for the scheme A section of the Sonia Gandhi -LED National Advisory Council (NAC) is not happy with the government “rushing into” the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme, expected to be the flagship programme of the ruling Congress party in the national election scheduLED for next year. At a meeting of the NAC on Tuesday, where Unique Identification Authority of...
More »Alternative options to be provided for tribals
-The New Indian Express Bhubaneshwar: The State Government has decided to implement the Focused Area Development (FAD) scheme for the welfare of tribal people for the next 10 years with an expenditure of `15.9 crore per year. The scheme was launched in 2012-13 for providing alternative sources of livelihood to the tribal people. The decision to continue the FAD scheme for the next 10 years was taken at a high level meeting...
More »Private guards cannot hold arms without licence, SC told -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express Asked to explain the regulatory framework for private security agencies and use of firearms by their security guards in the wake of the gunfight that LED to the killing of liquor baron Gurdeep Singh Chadha alias Ponty and his brother Hardeep in November last year, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that such guards do not have any special rights to hold firearms without licence. Referring to...
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