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LPG for every Indian household -Abhishek Jain

-The Hindu The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana scheme, which recognises the importance of clean cooking energy, is welcome. But we need to focus on issues of cash flow, awareness, availability and administration Within a fortnight of the recently announced Union Budget, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, earmarking Rs. 8,000 crore for it, with the aim of providing five crore subsidised Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)...

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Eastern states to benefit from new LPG scheme -Siddhartha P Saikia

-The Financial Express Govt may spend major chunk of Budget outlay in these states The Modi government would spend major portion of the Rs 2,000- crore Budget outlay for providing LPG to households below poverty line in the eastern states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam. A senior official in the finance ministry told FE that the nodal petroleum ministry has proposed a detailed road map for the scheme aimed...

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‘Mother begged for her life... she died, half her clothes pulled out’ by Ujjwalanayudu

It's 10 years since he saw his parents and 10 others being burnt and electrocuted in front of him in Sardarpura, but the horror hasn’t left Gulam Ali Akbar Sheikh. Like the other victims, he migrated from his native village to Satnagar in Mehsana district following the massacre, but the fear has stayed with him. Sheikh remembers that they had just finished their dinner when the riot started around 9.30 pm....

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Migration

KEY TRENDS  • The new Cohort-based Migration Metric (CMM) shows that inter-state labor mobility averaged 5-6.5 million people between 2001 and 2011, yielding an inter-state migrant population of about 60 million and an inter-district migration as high as 80 million @* • The first-ever estimates of internal work-related migration using railways data for the period 2011-2016 indicate an annual average flow of close to 9 million migrant people between the states. Both these estimates are significantly greater than the...

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Union Budget And Other Economic Policies

**page** [inside]KEY TRENDS of the Union Budget 2023-24[/inside] Budget 2023-24 is the last full budget before the general election scheduled for 2024. An analysis of the budget allocations suggests that the union government has squeezed expenditure, particularly on food subsidy and the NREGA budget, while boosting Capital expenditure and giving the middle class tax benefits. Social sector activists working on Right to Food, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) came out with...

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