-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 31st January, 2020 Rural distress has risen to alarming levels. As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of 2017-18, rural unemployment stands at 8 percent (statement 30 in Section 3.7, PLFS). In conjunction with skyrocketing food inflation levels, this is a serious concern. The situation is much worse for the landless depending on casual manual labour who constitute more than half the rural...
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How a Ration shop in Dantewada is restoring normalcy by providing grains -Gargi Verma
-The Indian Express Thanks to the efforts of district police and administRation, villagers are recovering from Naxal violence. Raipur: Twenty-eight-year old Devi Podiam, a resident of Potali village in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, is used to allocating two full days at the beginning of each month just to walk over 10 km to a Ration shop in Tirkapara in order to get monthly supplies of rice and other necessities for her family....
More »'One nation, one Ration card' scheme to be implemented by June 1 across India
-ANI * 'We will implement the 'one nation, one Ration card' scheme by June 1 in the whole country,' says Ram Vilas Paswan * Under this scheme a beneficiary will be able to avail benefits across the country using the same Ration card Patna: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday announced that the 'One Nation, One Ration Card' scheme will be implemented by June 1 across the country. "We will implement the 'One...
More »One state, one Ration card: MP reforms its Aadhaar-enabled PDS, helps migrant workers -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express Madhya Pradesh government has now found a solution. Under the Aadhaar-enabled PDS, the respective grain quota is given to the nominee after verification of his biometric details. It’s not uncommon for beneficiaries of the public distribution system (PDS) to miss out on their quota of monthly food grains for reasons ranging from disability to old age to failure of the biometric verification system. But the Madhya Pradesh government has now...
More »Justice Madan Lokur, former judge of the Supreme Court, interviewed by Bhadra Sinha (Hindustan Times)
-Hindustan Times Article 14 of the Constitution is not limited only to reasonable [actually Rational] classification. What is important is that the Rational classification must have a reasonable nexus with the object sought to be achieved by the legislation, says Justice Lokur Justice Madan Lokur, a former judge of the Supreme Court, says the proviso to the definition of illegal immigrant in the amended citizenship act is unconstitutional if one agrees with...
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