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Why e-rickshaws are no big draw for Delhi drivers despite Kejriwal govt’s purchase subsidy -Sukriti Vats

-ThePrint.in While govt says subsidies have been availed on 9,558 e-rickshaws to date, data compiled by road ministry portal Vahan 4.0 has shown dip in registration of e-rickshaws since 2019. New Delhi: While electric rickshaws, or e-rickshaws, can be spotted on the streets of Delhi any given time of day, their more primitive predecessors, the three-wheeler cycle rickshaws continue to remain a prominent mode of transport, straining to keep up with the...

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Upper-caste businesspersons own 61.8% of micro, small and medium firms in India: Government data

-Scroll.in Entrepreneurs from the Scheduled Caste category own 6.8% of these enterprises, while those in the Scheduled Tribe category own just 2.1% of them. People belonging to the general category own 61.8% of all the micro, small and medium enterprises in India, The Hindu reported on Wednesday, citing government data. The Mandal Commission, which looked into the question of Other Backward Class reservation, has defined general category as groups that are “socially and...

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Retail Inflation Shot Up to 6.95% in March: Government

-TheWire.in It is for the third straight month that the retail inflation remained above the Reserve Bank of India's comfort zone. New Delhi: Consumer price-based inflation jumped to 6.95% in March, mainly on account of costlier food items, according to government data released on Tuesday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 6.07% in February. The inflation in the food basket was 7.68% in March, up from 5.85% in the preceding month. It is...

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OBC entrepreneurs own nearly 30% of India’s MSMEs -T Ramakrishnan

-The Hindu Around 41% of OBC-owned units are located in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. Chennai: Other Backward Classes (OBC) own nearly 30% of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in the country.  As on March 31, 2022, the number of MSMEs owned by OBCs was 23.31 lakh units, out of a total of about 80.16 lakh units in the country.  Of the OBC-owned units, around 41% are located in three States —...

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Brittle lives: Editorial on the high rates of suicide

-The Telegraph Targeted policy interventions and awareness programmes needed to prevent suicide Suicide is an unfathomable tragedy. A recent  analysis of data from 113 countries shows that people in 89 nations are more likely to die of suicide than murder. Several countries in Asia have a significantly higher suicide rate than murder — the figures are 56.8 times in Japan, 33.7 times in South Korea and 31.4 times in Singapore. Among the...

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