-The Hindu Utilisation certificates not given for 50% of money sanctioned after 2018 deluge, says Centre The Centre will not allot any additional assistance to Kerala from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) as it has failed to produce utilisation certificates for 50% of over Rs. 3,000 crore fund allotted to it after the 2018 floods, a senior Home Ministry official said on Thursday. The Kerala government had demanded an additional Rs.2,000 crore...
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Bengaluru Police demolishes makeshift houses of migrants as CAA-NRC debate rages on -Nolan Pinto
-IndiaToday.in According to sources, a police notice was sent to the owner of the site on January 11. The notice stated that in survey no. 35/2 in Kariyammana Agrahara near Bellandur Lake, there were illegal sheds and possible Bangladeshis present. Bengaluru: Lalitha hails from Raichur and Karanna from Koppal in Karnataka. They stand in front of us showing their Aadhaar Cards demanding to know why their makeshift homes have been demolished by...
More »India's poor are also document-poor -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com Document-driven processes such as the proposed National Register of Citizens are likely to place the heaviest burden on Adivasis and Muslims Among the many conceits of the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens is this: that only “illegal immigrants" need fear not having the proper documentation. News reporting from Assam has exposed repeatedly that this is not necessarily the case, with women and the poor bearing the brunt of the National...
More »Birth certificates are citizenship proof, Govt says. But 38% under-5 children don't have one -Swagata Yadavar & Disha Shetty
-India Spend New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Any document related to the date and place of birth can be submitted to prove citizenship for National Register of Citizens, the government has said, but a large number of Indians, especially older citizens, do not possess birth certificates, an IndiaSpend analysis shows. Three in five children (62.3%) under the age of five had their births registered and possessed a birth certificate in 2015-16, according to National...
More »NRC applicants hit by lack of government records -Naresh Mitra
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: Many NRC applicants in Assam who had submitted refugee registration certificates to back their residency claims are in a fix after the authorities rejected 60 out of every 100 such documents on grounds of unavailability of corresponding records with the government to corroborate their authenticity. “This is just a conservative estimate. The number could be higher,” said an official involved in the process of updating the NRC...
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