Modi government launched several welfare schemes to realise Ambedkar's vision for poor: Details
3 months, 1 week ago

Modi government launched several welfare schemes to realise Ambedkar's vision for poor: Details

India TV News  

Dr BR Ambedkar, the architect of India’s Constitution, envisioned a society that promotes social and economic equality, particularly for the marginalised and backward classes. The government of India has undertaken several impactful initiatives to empower Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities, focusing on education, economic development, social welfare, and legal protections. • The National SC/ST Hub aims to enhance the entrepreneurial capabilities of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, promoting their economic empowerment and job creation. ◦ Rs 1721.62 Crores Procurement from 11,488 SC/ST Owned MSEs • National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation : Provides credit facilities to SC and ST beneficiaries for income-generating activities, such as self-employment and entrepreneurship. • A recent all-India survey on higher education reveals that the proportion of students from marginalized communities—Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Castes—has surpassed the national average over the past five years.

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Telangana Govt to provide ₹3 lakh each to 5 lakh youth for self-employment under Rajiv Yuva Vikasam
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Telangana Govt to provide ₹3 lakh each to 5 lakh youth for self-employment under Rajiv Yuva Vikasam

The Hindu  

Telangana Government has focussed its attention on providing employment to unemployed SC, ST, BC and Minority youth. The government has decided to provide financial assistance of ₹6,000 crore to five lakh unemployed youth from these sections under Rajiv Yuva Vikasam enabling them to take up self-employment. The scheme, according to Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, has been conceived as …

How MNSSBY supports skill development among Bihar's youth
2 months, 2 weeks ago

How MNSSBY supports skill development among Bihar's youth

India TV News  

The Mukhya Mantri Nishchay Swayam Sahayata Bhatta Yojana is a visionary initiative by the Bihar government aimed at empowering the youth through skill development and financial independence. Eligibility Criteria: Youth aged between 20 and 25, who have completed at least Class 12 and are unemployed, qualify for the financial support under MNSSBY Youth aged between 20 and 25, who have …

The good, the bad, and the ugly in poverty alleviation
4 months ago

The good, the bad, and the ugly in poverty alleviation

Hindustan Times  

In April 2022, I joined a group of donors on a trip to the interiors of Jharkhand’s tribal belt to see the early results of a pilot project aimed to lift 1,200 families in the region out of extreme poverty. Adopting the graduation approach to poverty alleviation, led by the Bengaluru-headquartered Nudge Institute, with the tacit support of the state …

Tamil Nadu: CM Stalin Rejects PM Modi’s Vishwakarma Scheme
4 months ago

Tamil Nadu: CM Stalin Rejects PM Modi’s Vishwakarma Scheme

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Chief Minister M K Stalin said a firm ‘no’ to the Prime Minister’s Vishwakarma Scheme since it, in its present form, strengthened the system of caste-based vocation and assured to come up with an alternative comprehensive scheme to empower traditional artisans in Tamil Nadu under the overall principle of social justice. In a letter to Union Minister of Micro, …

State Governor Highlights Inclusive Growth Efforts, Focuses on Empowerment of Below Poverty Families
5 months ago

State Governor Highlights Inclusive Growth Efforts, Focuses on Empowerment of Below Poverty Families

Deccan Chronicle  

Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has emphasized the importance of ensuring that the fruits of development and benefits of welfare schemes reach every poor family in the state. He commended the district authorities for their achievement in reducing anemia cases to 21 per cent in 2024 from 73 in 2021. He also expressed happiness that 474 gram panchayats in the district …

Women’s economic empowerment as a means to alleviate poverty
7 months, 1 week ago

Women’s economic empowerment as a means to alleviate poverty

Hindustan Times  

India’s recent strides in poverty alleviation demonstrate the remarkable impact of inclusion and outcome-oriented policy and execution. To further support economic empowerment, the government’s lakhpati didis and Women Entrepreneurship Fund Scheme focus on elevating women's financial status and fostering entrepreneurship. These efforts are complemented by programs like Mission Shakti and Mahila Shakti Kendras, which bolster women's safety, security, and community …

World Adivasi Day: Chandrababu Naidu promises steps to ensure ‘zero poverty’ among tribals in Andhra Pradesh
7 months, 2 weeks ago

World Adivasi Day: Chandrababu Naidu promises steps to ensure ‘zero poverty’ among tribals in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has asserted that his government will take steps for comprehensive development of tribal people in the State in the next five years. “The State government will focus on the tribal welfare schemes and programmes, which were either discontinued, or watered down during the YSR Congress Party term,” Mr. Naidu said while participating in …

Limit benefits of ‘Amma Vodi’ scheme to government schools, urges municipal teachers’ body
9 months, 1 week ago

Limit benefits of ‘Amma Vodi’ scheme to government schools, urges municipal teachers’ body

The Hindu  

Leaders of the Municipal Teachers Federation urged the Telugu Desam Party -led coalition government in the State to implement the ‘Amma Vodi’ scheme benefits exclusively for students of State-run schools of Andhra Pradesh. In a statement released on Saturday, MTF’s State president S. Ramakrishna said that government schools had already witnessed a large-scale exodus of students who moved to private …

Modi launches PM-SURAJ portal; to benefit marginalised sector
1 year ago

Modi launches PM-SURAJ portal; to benefit marginalised sector

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the ‘Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan and Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan’ national portal and sanctioned credit support to one lakh entrepreneurs of disadvantaged sections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Interacting with beneficiaries of various government schemes, including Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes, and sanitation workers, PM Modi emphasized the government’s commitment to prioritise the underprivileged. …

Caste census lessons for new government in Bihar
1 year, 1 month ago

Caste census lessons for new government in Bihar

Hindustan Times  

The Bihar caste census has been an eye-opener in many ways. Thus, in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha and 2025 Bihar Vidhan Sabha elections, the BJP-JD government will be challenged by the Opposition to not abandon the cause of inclusive development. Bihar’s net per capita income is the lowest in India, at just ₹47,000 vis-à-vis ₹4.7 lakh for …

2024 Interim Budget | After PM Modi’s call, Centre’s measure for social justice progress focuses on poor, women, youth, and farmers
1 year, 1 month ago

2024 Interim Budget | After PM Modi’s call, Centre’s measure for social justice progress focuses on poor, women, youth, and farmers

The Hindu  

In Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Interim Budget speech months before the country goes to the Lok Sabha election, the Narendra Modi-led government’s social justice plank is clearly spelt out with the government looking to cover the development of all castes and their administrative focus on ensuring “resources are distributed fairly regardless of social standing”. This is manifested in the way …

VBSY’s goal is to ensure that govt. schemes reach all eligible people: PM Modi
1 year, 2 months ago

VBSY’s goal is to ensure that govt. schemes reach all eligible people: PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 8 said the main goal of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra was to ensure that government schemes reached all deserving people. The Prime Minister said the “Modi Ki Guarantee” vehicles, along with government officials and people’s representatives, were reaching every nook and cranny of the country. Mr. Modi said health checkups for over two crore …

The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies
1 year, 3 months ago

The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies

The Hindu  

Modern democracy is synonymous with both the values of social harmony and reforms that ensure dignity and self-respect to its participants, especially the historically deprived and socially marginalised people. Though various political regimes vouch to implement social justice policies, this has little impact in ensuring the significant participation of the worst-off social groups in the domain of power. Ambedkar’s principles …

The four biggest castes for me are the poor, the youth, women, and farmers: Modi
1 year, 3 months ago

The four biggest castes for me are the poor, the youth, women, and farmers: Modi

The Hindu  

November 30, 2023 12:23 pm | Updated 07:58 pm IST - New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that among all the castes, the poor, the youth, women, and farmers were the biggest for him, and that only the uplift of these “castes” would lead to the progress of the country. The remarks were made by Mr. Modi …

Bihar survey exposes disparities among OBCs
1 year, 4 months ago

Bihar survey exposes disparities among OBCs

Hindustan Times  

The economic truths revealed by the Bihar caste survey data are more telling than whatever political significance the findings may have. The socio-economic data in the survey suggests that Bihar now needs a larger dose of development, not more of identity-centric politics, which has shaped the state’s governance priorities in the last three decades or so. The state needs to …

‘Minorities welfare confined to Shaadi Mubarak and iftar parties, most schemes performed poorly
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Minorities welfare confined to Shaadi Mubarak and iftar parties, most schemes performed poorly

The Hindu  

The Telangana Minorities Welfare Department’s ‘populist schemes’, most visibly Shaadi Mubarak, the one-time financial assistance of ₹1,00,116 at the time of marriage, and budget allocations for iftar and Christmas parties are also the most fund-utilised schemes in the past nine years. “A scheme-wise analysis showed that higher budget utilisation is due to implementation of populist schemes.” For education, fund utilisation …

Noble intentions: The Hindu Editorial on the PM Vishwakarma scheme for traditional workers
1 year, 7 months ago

Noble intentions: The Hindu Editorial on the PM Vishwakarma scheme for traditional workers

The Hindu  

The PM Vishwakarma scheme approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday to help traditional craftspeople and artisans can provide an economic boost to these professionals. Also, by laying stress on the intergenerational nature of knowledge dissemination in these communities, the scheme could end up leaving the next generation willy-nilly stuck for perpetuity in these traditional low-paying trades, many of which are …

RSS expresses concern over 'rising income inequality', says poverty is a demon, we need to kill it
2 years, 5 months ago

RSS expresses concern over 'rising income inequality', says poverty is a demon, we need to kill it

India TV News  

RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Sunday expressed concern over alleged rising income inequality and unemployment in the country, asserting that poverty is posing as a "demon-like challenge in front of us." Labour force survey pegs the unemployment rate at 7.6 per cent.We not only need all-India schemes but also local schemes for generating employment," he said. On inequality, Hosabale …

Rajasthan govt to launch scheme for Dalit and tribal welfare in state
2 years, 6 months ago

Rajasthan govt to launch scheme for Dalit and tribal welfare in state

Hindustan Times  

Ahead of the assembly polls due next year, Rajasthan government is expected to launch Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Rajasthan Dalit, Tribal Entrepreneurship Promotion Scheme. A senior official familiar with the development said chief minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the draft the scheme, which will ensure full time training for various trades and products of MSME sector in collaboration with Dalit Indian …

Nandkumar Mohite, a farmer\'s contribution to higher education of Ratnagiri
2 years, 9 months ago

Nandkumar Mohite, a farmer\'s contribution to higher education of Ratnagiri

Deccan Chronicle  

Rapidly growing population, shortages of teachers, books, and basic facilities are some of the nation's toughest challenges to meeting many national problems including education. As he is very well conversant with the difficulties faced in getting higher education in villages especially by the children of labourers, farmers and fishermen, he started a trust called Shramik Kisan Seva Samiti in the …

Multidimensional Poverty Index: A new poverty marker
3 years, 3 months ago

Multidimensional Poverty Index: A new poverty marker

The Hindu  

AT 8.4 per cent, the gross domestic product of the Indian economy in the second quarter of the fiscal reached pre-pandemic levels. According to the index, in Bihar 51.91 per cent of the population is poor, followed by Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Meghalaya. More than half of the population of Scheduled Tribes, who account for 9.4 per cent …

Jobs, castes and other issues in India’s general elections
5 years, 11 months ago

Jobs, castes and other issues in India’s general elections

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 promising big-ticket economic reforms. Hindus comprise about 80% of India’s 1.3 billion people, so the BJP is invoking its Hindu nationalist roots, with Modi at the forefront against the threat of Pakistan, India’s Muslim-majority archrival. ___ KASHMIR Amid growing scrutiny of Modi’s economic record, a suicide attack …

Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth; India's agrarian economy needs liberalisation, not govt handouts
6 years, 1 month ago

Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth; India's agrarian economy needs liberalisation, not govt handouts

Firstpost  

Instead of addressing the dwindling jobs and agrarian crisis, the government has responded by announcing a Targeted Basic Income scheme for farmers. In spite of its huge budgetary allocation Rs 75,000 crore per year, which exceeds National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme budget, it offers very little purchasing capacity to individuals, let alone potential to create sizable jobs. It is in …

MGNREGS has raised welfare, brought down inequality, says study
6 years, 1 month ago

MGNREGS has raised welfare, brought down inequality, says study

Live Mint  

At a time when political parties across the spectrum are searching for ways to provide cash transfers to rural and poor Indians, one such policy, started more than a decade ago, has come in for praise from a new study. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was launched in 2006 to provide 100 days of employment to villagers …

Is the BJP really concerned about India’s poor?
6 years, 2 months ago

Is the BJP really concerned about India’s poor?

Al Jazeera  

On January 9, the upper house of India’s parliament – the Rajya Sabha – passed a constitutional amendment to lift the cap on reservations in education and public sector jobs from 50 to 60 percent. This is why Modi’s scheme has come to be scorned as “upper caste reservations” that erase the fact that, in India, affirmative action was introduced …

Modi govt's 10% quota for economically weaker upper castes not a new offer; move likely to face judicial scrutiny
6 years, 2 months ago

Modi govt's 10% quota for economically weaker upper castes not a new offer; move likely to face judicial scrutiny

Firstpost  

As per the 10% reservation approved for economically backward upper castes, any family from the general category that holds less than five acres of agricultural land, owns less than 1,000 square feet of residential property and earns less than Rs 8 lakh per annum is eligible to seek quota. In a move that is likely to heat up the political …

India plans job quotas for upper caste poor as election nears
6 years, 2 months ago

India plans job quotas for upper caste poor as election nears

Al Jazeera  

BJP moves constitution amendment bill in parliament to reserve 10 percent of government jobs for the privileged group. New Delhi, India – Months ahead of crucial general elections, India‘s government plans to reserve 10 percent of government jobs for the poor, including the country’s historically privileged upper castes. India’s system of reservation or quota – its version of affirmative action …

A new paradigm for eliminating poverty
6 years, 6 months ago

A new paradigm for eliminating poverty

Deccan Chronicle  

According to the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index of the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, more than 270 million people in India moved out of poverty in the decade since 2005-06 and the poverty rate in the country nearly halved over the 10-year period. Capacity building is an essential component of the bottom-up …

The Modi government’s inclusive policies have unified the nation
6 years, 8 months ago

The Modi government’s inclusive policies have unified the nation

Hindustan Times  

Churchill derided India as a mere “geographical term”. Seventy years later, the Modi government’s policies have added an equality and inclusion-focused economic complement to the legal framework Babasaheb put in place. Initially derided by many elites, more than 70 million new toilets are testimony to a newfound self-esteem for millions of underprivileged — especially women and children in India’s remotest …

Gap between skilled and unskilled, rural and urban, online and offline is reducing; Bharat no longer backbencher of growth story
6 years, 11 months ago

Gap between skilled and unskilled, rural and urban, online and offline is reducing; Bharat no longer backbencher of growth story

Firstpost  

India, that is, Bharat - the majority of our country that is living in villages – is symbolic of our aspirations. It’s been two years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the government’s ‘Rurban’ Mission, with a cluster-based development model, to provide urban amenities to rural India. Three hundred village clusters were created keeping in mind that rural India isn’t …

Altrustic youth opt for NGOs
7 years, 4 months ago

Altrustic youth opt for NGOs

Deccan Chronicle  

With various NGOs being set up in the city in the city, many socially-conscious youngsters are wanting give up their multinational/corporate jobs and work for NGOs in a bid to do their bit for the community. In a conversation with these youngsters, we found out what motivated them to ditch high paying jobs and work in the social sector for …

Three years of Narendra Modi govt: Sushma Swaraj says PM has empowered Indians, NRIs
7 years, 9 months ago

Three years of Narendra Modi govt: Sushma Swaraj says PM has empowered Indians, NRIs

Firstpost  

Union minister Sushma Swaraj said PM Narendra Modi has lived up to his mantra of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ by empowering Indians in the country and abroad. New Delhi: Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lived up to his mantra of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ by empowering Indians not just in …

Development only way to solve India's problems: Modi
8 years, 4 months ago

Development only way to solve India's problems: Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

Raipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made a strong pitch for development saying it is the only way to solve the problems that India is facing and urged state governments and local governing bodies to work in tandem to make the country poverty-free. Underlining the importance of value addition for the economic development of farmers in the country, he …

RSS opposes Centre’s labour laws, wants govt to focus on job creation
8 years, 8 months ago

RSS opposes Centre’s labour laws, wants govt to focus on job creation

Hindustan Times  

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated trade unions and farmer groups have opposed the government’s attempts to amend labour laws at a time when the BJP-led NDA is pushing big-ticket programmes such as skill development and Make in India. PM Narendra Modi’s views that FDI reforms will boost employment and benefit the economy has failed to impress the Sangh. An SJM functionary said: …

Be proud of pro-poor measures: Modi
9 years, 11 months ago

Be proud of pro-poor measures: Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told the BJP parliamentary party: “Don’t measure us on the scale of rajniti but on rashtraniti.” He was outlining the government’s poverty alleviation programmes at a day-long workshop of the parliamentary party. Expressing confidence that the second part of the Budget Session will be productive, the Prime Minister asked his party MPs to come …

India needs multi-pronged approach to eradicate poverty: Report
10 years, 11 months ago

India needs multi-pronged approach to eradicate poverty: Report

The Hindu  

A multi-pronged approach with focus on >inclusive economic growth would help eradicate poverty, which is increasingly getting concentrated in a few geographical areas, says a research report. The observations are part of the India Public Policy Report 2014 jointly published by O P Jindal Global University and Oxford University Press. “Overcoming poverty requires a context specific multi-pronged strategy that includes: …

In Rajasthan, BJP promises quota for Gujjars and seven other tribes
11 years, 4 months ago

In Rajasthan, BJP promises quota for Gujjars and seven other tribes

The Hindu  

In its Rajasthan Assembly election manifesto, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday promised five per cent reservation to Gujjars, and seven other tribes, as a special backward class after removing “all constitutional impediments,” and rehabilitation of Hindu refugees mainly from the Sindh province of Pakistan. The BJP promises agricultural loans to farmers at 1 per cent interest, creation of 15 …

Many of last year’s schemes go unimplemented
11 years, 8 months ago

Many of last year’s schemes go unimplemented

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is notorious for presenting inflated budgets and not implementing many projects announced. Non-starters Many welfare projects also remain unimplemented, as the BBMP, in the ATR, has claimed that “approval of competent authority is awaited.” Some of important welfare schemes that are yet to be implemented include the Mahatma Gandhi Swavalambana programme envisaged to fund 500 …

Go beyond tinkering
11 years, 8 months ago

Go beyond tinkering

The Hindu  

Adapting tools of governance to suit evolving needs is essential to bring administrative systems up to speed. The Union >government’s recent decision to restructure centrally That said, two points need emphasis. Two, mere tinkering with systems can hardly lead to desired outcomes given India’s stupendous challenges in fighting poverty. For this to happen, the implementation mechanism for poverty alleviation programmes …

Bihar hires 85 young professionals to its livelihood project
12 years, 10 months ago

Bihar hires 85 young professionals to its livelihood project

Firstpost  

Bihar Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra said young professionals have been recruited by the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society to help in implementing the World Bank-supported Jeevika project in the state. Patna: For the first time, Bihar has hired hired 85 young professionals, all fresh post-graduates of India’s top ranking management and social sciences institutes, to help in implementing a …

Draw people living in poverty within growth cycle: Pratibha
13 years, 8 months ago

Draw people living in poverty within growth cycle: Pratibha

The Hindu  

Inclusive growth was crucial for the country's economic growth to be long-lasting and “to change the lives of our people,” President Pratibha Patil said here on Monday. Ms. Patil was delivering the key-note address at a function organised to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Indian School of Business on the “role of young business leaders in achieving inclusive growth …

All for the poor
17 years, 3 months ago

All for the poor

The Hindu  

The government has taken initiatives to improve the living standards of the poor in the villages. A SILENT revolution is sweeping across Andhra Pradesh every third woman among the rural poor in the State is joining the Indira Kranti Patham, a poverty alleviation programme of the State government. Minister for Rural Development G. Chinna Reddy told Frontline that the government …

Social justice milestones
19 years ago

Social justice milestones

The Hindu  

All sections are part of the development agenda. It plans to provide a loan of Rs.5 lakhs to any person belonging to the S.C. community at an interest rate of 5 per cent for the purchase of two acres of land. Those studying post-graduate and other higher courses would get Rs.4,000 and students in technical and vocational degree courses would …

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