-The Telegraph There is something heroic about tens of thousands of farmers marching and wringing concessions from a BJP state government The farmers’ rally in Delhi, the Kisan Mukti March, organised by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) happened the day after the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and just before the assembly elections in Rajasthan. The politics of the rally was different from the politics of elections but the...
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Kisan Mukti March: Opposition rallies behind farmers -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Rahul Gandhi, Kejriwal and other leaders share stage, demand loan waiver Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal shared the stage for the first time at Friday’s Kisan Mukti March, leading a show of Opposition unity in support of the farmers’ demands for fair prices and debt relief. Farmer leaders welcomed the political support as a sign that the agrarian crisis is now on top of...
More »Green tax helped Delhi collect hundreds of crores for buses. So where are they? -Priyamvada Grover
-ThePrint.in The Arvind Kejriwal govt is believed to have collected around Rs 1,800 cr till September 2018, but Delhi is yet to get new buses. New Delhi: The winter months are back with the suffocating blanket of smog that has now become a Delhi fixture, but crucial steps that can help check the capital’s notorious pollution problem continue to hang fire. A fund running into hundreds of crores of rupees is reportedly lying...
More »In Delhi, cancellation of 2.5 lakh ration cards sparks tussle between AAP government, bureaucracy -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Questions arise again over Delhi’s welfare delivery system – close on the heels of the starvation deaths of three girls in July. In May, Ram Baran, a resident of Savitri Nagar in Delhi, received a letter from the ration circle office stating that his ration card would be cancelled because he had not collected foodgrains between January and March. The letter added that unless he submitted his Aadhaar number, electricity...
More »'Mission Buniyaad' a hit, claims AAP government report
-DNA The Delhi government released an outcome report of its ambitious 'Mission Buniyaad Scheme' claiming that the learning ability of government school students has improved significantly over the past years, with 63 per cent of children in classes 3 to 9 is now able to read their textbooks. According to the National Achievement Survey 2017 published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), only 48 per cent Delhi government...
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