-TheWire.in Declining budget allocation and actual expenditure on schemes geared towards agriculture, sanitation and housing have brought the Government's seriousness to the cause of rural welfare under suspicion. Direct benefit transfer has dominated the majority of the discussion on the Interim Budget in the context of agriculture. However, in order to properly understand the seriousness of the Government to the cause of farmers and related issues of rural development, we should also...
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Modi Pays Tribute to Sanitation Workers After Five Years of Ignoring Them -Rejimon K
-TheWire.in Government documents and budget data reveal that the prime minister's feet-washing act is just optics. On Sunday, a video uploaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his personal Twitter account showed him washing the feet of four safai karamacharis in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Within two hours, 19,000 Twitter users had liked it, 7,200 had retweeted it and 1,700 had commented on the link. Uploading the video, Modi had tweeted that washing the...
More »PM-Kisan sop amid election won't breach code, feels govt -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After rolling out the Centre’s flagship ‘assured income support’ scheme for farmers on Sunday, the Modi Government is now looking at the prospect of disbursing the second instalment of Rs 2,000 each to eligible small and marginal farmers in April-May even as the election is on. If the Government goes ahead, many of the beneficiaries may get total Rs 4,000 in next two months - first...
More »Tribals' eviction: Congress, BJP tell CMs to file review pleas
-The Hindu Amit Shah, Rahul write to States; RSS outfit demands ordinance The presidents of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rahul Gandhi and Amit Shah, have directed the Chief Ministers of the States ruled by their parties to file a review petition in the Supreme Court over its ruling ordering the eviction of tribals unable to provide sufficient proof of claim to forest land. Mr. Gandhi on Monday said...
More »Slipping on democracy -SY Quraishi
-The Indian Express A recent Democracy Index confirms the paradox of India being the world’s largest electoral wonder, but an increasingly flawed democracy. The Economist Intelligence Unit recently published its 11th report on the “State of Democracy in the World in 2018” titled “Me Too? Political participation, protest and democracy”. The EIU has over seven decades of experience in studying the spectrum of democracies in the world. The index made news...
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