-The Telegraph CM Mamata Banerjee also expressed her concern over the curtailment of allotment for the MGNREGA scheme during an administrative review meeting in Calcutta Bolpur (Birbhum): The Mamata Banerjee government has written to the Centre with a plea to approve 8 crore more manDays under the 100-Days’ job scheme for Bengal in the current fiscal after the state achieved its approved labour budget of 27 crore manDays. “The Centre has so far...
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A Budget Whose Silences are Ominous -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The people are thus facing increasingly hard times, but in the bland vision of the Modi government, there is no cognisance of it. However, that itself is ominous because when the balance of payments becomes unmanageable, the Modi government will run to the IMF to ask for a rescue package. No budget in recent memory has been presented at a time when the economy is in such dire straits: unemployment is...
More »For Aligarh's Lock Workers, Rising Costs, Low Wages Primary Concerns in Polling Season -Ismat Ara
-TheWire.in Both factory workers and owners are feeling the brunt of first demonetisation and then the COVID-19 lockdowns, and believe the government is ignoring them. Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): Tahir Khan is a 35-year-old lock worker in Aligarh. He is among the thousands of workers bearing the brunt of COVID-19 lockdowns and what they call government apathy towards workers. He is currently employed under Saud Aijaz, whose family has been running a small-scale lock...
More »CPI(M) MP Kareem Moves Private Member’s Bill to Repeal Four Labour Codes -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Speaking to NewsClick in a telephone interview on FriDay, the Rajya Sabha leader lamented that the Centre has “not accepted even a single recommendation” that was made to it by Standing Committee on Labour in its different reports over the Labour Codes. New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP Elamaram Kareem on FriDay introduced a Private Member’s Bill that seeks to repeal the contentious four Labour Codes which...
More »Supreme Court asks states, UTs to clear COVID relief claims in 10 Days
-The New Indian Express The Supreme Court directed all states and Union Territories to appoint dedicated nodal officer to coordinate with the member secretary of the SLSA. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on FriDay directed all states and Union Territories to appoint dedicated nodal officer to coordinate with the member secretary of the State Legal Service Authority (SLSA) to facilitate payment of ex gratia compensation to kin of Covid victims. It also directed...
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