-The Hindu Business Line Sees enhanced infra spending, higher consumption New Delhi: While noting that demonetisation of high value currency by the government last year will help bring in more taxpayers into the tax net, the United Nations ESCAP in a new report has said that more measures will be required to fight black money in the future. “The measure did not, by itself, impede future black money flows in new denominations. …...
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Centre revokes UGC directive on making PhD scholars' Aadhaar details public -Prakash Kumar
-Deccan Herald Clarifies that publishing and displaying Aadhaar in public is prohibited The Centre has asked the universities not to make public Aadhaar number of PhD scholars, withdrawing the university grants commission's (UGC) instruction which required all of the varsities to upload the data of their students along with their unique identification numbers on their websites since last year. “It is informed that the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits...
More »Outsource Govt Services, Bring in Pvt Sector Talent, Suggests Niti Aayog
-Outlook Policy think-tank Niti Aayog has suggested outsourcing of Public Services to private hands in order to reduce dependence on the government administrative machinery. It has also recommended induction of specialists into the governance system through lateral entry, a move which, it says, will bring "competition to the established career bureaucracy". In its draft report on a three-year action agenda made public recently, the Niti Aayog has set a target of full- digitisation...
More »Tribals want govt to scrap 1979 order denying sterilisation access -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Baigas in court against order issued by govt of undivided MP Achanakmar: “THAK GAYI (I am tired),” says Ranichand Baiga, 26. She was married at 15, and in a tribe where non-surgical contraceptives are still unheard of, has since had eight children. Two, she says, died of illness. On her arm, outside her one-room home in the core zone of the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve, is her youngest son, Surya,...
More »Lakhs of Aadhaar numbers appear on Jharkhand govt site -Prashant Pandey
-The Indian Express It’s unclear for how long the data had been displayed on the website. Ranchi: The Aadhaar numbers of lakhs of pension beneficiaries are suspected to have been displayed on a government website in Jharkhand in violation of the Aadhaar Act, which mandates that the unique identity number can’t be “published, displayed or posted publicly”. The lapse came to light on Saturday evening when the UIDAI office in Ranchi called...
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