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Chhattisgarh to increase PDS outlets

-The Pioneer Raipur: Chhattisgarh State Assembly on Saturday passed budget grant demands of Rs. 2248 crore for food, civil supplies, consumer protection, planning, village industry, economic statistic and twenty points programme implementation department with Voice Vote. The Government has announced in Assembly to increase the number of PDS outlets across the State. Answering a discussion on budget demand proposals for the various departments, Food Minister Punnulal Mohle informed that around Rs. 2099.93 crore...

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Aadhaar bill is through after Opposition scores a few brownie points

-The Indian Express The process of return of the bill saw an animated debate over why it was brought as a money bill. Since it was a money Bill, it could not be rejected or amended by Rajya Sabha Hours after the Opposition, making most of the NDA’s lack of numbers in Rajya Sabha, pushed through five amendments and returned the Aadhaar Bill to Lok Sabha, the Lower House rejected the changes...

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Union Budget 2016-17: Mere eyewash or some concrete steps

In the age of social media, various sections of the Indian polity and civil society have reacted publicly in diverse voices, following the presentation of the Union Budget 2016-17 by Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley. An assessment of the Union Budget 2016-17 has been done in the following paragraphs by the Inclusive Media for Change team, based on a number of media reports, Government documents (including the Budget documents), and reports...

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Big questions for our generation -Barkha Deva

-The Hindu The manner in which crucial laws are being amended will end up eroding rights that have deep consequences on the lives of our children and us as citizens of a thriving democracy. All because the state hasn’t been able to deliver what it was mandated to do. The last few months have seen an alarming trend of crucial laws being amended, or sought to be amended, in a manner that...

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Indian elite must wake up to public welfare: Piketty -Nina Martyris

-The Times of India MUMBAI: Rock-star French economist Thomas Piketty said it was "very moving" for him to be in Mumbai "after what happened in Paris in the last few weeks". In a wide-ranging conversation moderated by writer Patrick French, Piketty, author of the acclaimed Capital, an exposition on global inequality, and renowned Harvard professor Michael Sandel, whom French introduced as "the public philosopher of the BBC", talked about everything from growing...

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