NEW DELHI: The number of domestic migrants have lowered by nearly 12% to 40.20 crore between 2011 and 2023, indicating increased economic opportunities across the country, said a report by prime minister’s economic advisory panel EAC-PM. As per a paper by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, the number of domestic migrants stood at 40,20,90,396 in 2023, which …
Home Minister Amit Shah’s comments in early April on the need to promote Hindi as a lingua franca among States, which was followed by an acrimonious Twitter exchange between two filmstars on communicating in Hindi, once again catapulted the language issue into the national imagination. Hindi speakers who spoke it as the first language accounted for 39.29 per cent of …
In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the government has said that caste enumeration in Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 was fraught with mistakes and inaccuracies. New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that caste Census of Backward Classes is administratively difficult and cumbersome" and excluding such information from the purview of Census is a “conscious policy …
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