-Firstpost.com/ IndiaSpend Delhi/ Gurgaon: Underneath two gigantic chandeliers in the conference room of a posh Gurugram hotel, 250 elegantly dressed women are ferociously beating drums. Faster, slower, louder, stop. It’s easier than it looks. The women break out into a sweat as they whistle and shout hoi in unison, on cue. The idea of this 45-minute exercise, said Blesson Joseph of team-building company Dfrens, is to demonstrate the power of cooperation. “If...
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PMFBY -- Insurance Companies Make Super Profits, Farmers Suffer -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Insurance companies have already earned about Rs.16,000 crore in three seasons. The much-hyped Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) – supposed to provide insurance protection to farmers against crop losses due to natural events – has turned into a bonanza for insurance companies while farmers are angry over delays in claim settlement, rejections and paltry compensation. Launched in 2016, four full seasons have passed since and the financial transactions show earnings...
More »Attempts Being Made to Dilute Anti-Corruption Laws, AP Shah Writes to Modi -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in The letter by the former Delhi chief justice highlights the dangers of decriminalising the Companies Act, introducing electoral bonds, weakening the RTI Act and not implementing of the Lokpal Act and Whistleblowers Protection Act. New Delhi: In a letter sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former chief justice of Delhi high court and noted rights activist A.P. Shah has lamented that “instead of increasing transparency and accountability and making the deterrents...
More »Assam: Over 40 lakh people left out of final draft of National Register of Citizens
-Scroll.in The list verifies 2.89 crore people, out of the 3.29 crore who had applied, as legal citizens of India. The Assam government published the final draft of the National Register of Citizens on Monday. Around 40 lakh people did not find mention in the list out of 3.29 crore applicants. The stated aim of the counting exercise is to separate genuine Indian citizens from so-called illegal migrants who might be living...
More »The Numbers Hide The Story -Lola Nayar
-Outlook Social security enrolment of workers is not a good measure of how many new jobs are created Employment data has always been a subject of debate in India, more so now that the surge in social security enrolments is being cited as evidence to press home that 41.26 lakh new jobs were created between September 2017 and April this year. The Central Statistics Office data earlier this month raises more questions...
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