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Elect Chamala with greater margin than me, Nakrekal MLA tells people
8 months ago

Elect Chamala with greater margin than me, Nakrekal MLA tells people

Deccan Chronicle  

Nalgonda: Congress MLA Vemula Veeresham on Tuesday asked the people of his constituency to give a bigger margin of victory — about 56,00 votes — that he got in his Nakrekal segment to the party’s Bhongir candidate Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy. The Congress state government has implemented five poll promises within 100 days and the remaining one would be fulfilled …

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Union Budget 2021: Slashed funds for NREGA, Poshan Abhiyan 2.0, elderly pensions reflect poorly on Centre
3 years, 11 months ago

Union Budget 2021: Slashed funds for NREGA, Poshan Abhiyan 2.0, elderly pensions reflect poorly on Centre

Firstpost  

In a post-truth world, the plain cold statistics in the fine print of the Union Budget 2021 often reveal more than the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech. However, the 2021-22 budget has reduced the allocation to Rs 73,000 crore even as several states and local governments have already exhausted their budgets and have been clamouring for more. Though the …

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Why cash can save the rural jobs scheme
4 years, 7 months ago

Why cash can save the rural jobs scheme

Live Mint  

If we get work in the village, why would we go elsewhere? We can’t survive like that.” With millions of workers returning to rural India, the government has naturally committed to a major boost in the outlay for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act this year. For a while, they couldn’t get work until they opened accounts; delays in wage …

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Getting cash transfers out of a JAM
4 years, 7 months ago

Getting cash transfers out of a JAM

The Hindu  

For some years now, the so-called JAM trinity has been propounded as a dream cash-transfer infrastructure for India. One way to think about this is to compare women’s JDY accounts with another possible basis for cash transfers, at least in rural areas: the list of households that have a National Rural Employment Guarantee Act job card. The numbers of accounts …

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Coronavirus Outbreak: Bihar's rural poor at greater danger than rest of India; rations, cooked food need of the hour
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Bihar's rural poor at greater danger than rest of India; rations, cooked food need of the hour

Firstpost  

The worst impact of coronavirus outbreak has been on the marginalised; those who are not only at risk of getting exposed to the virus but also have to bear the burden of lapses in state policy The coronavirus has claimed many lives around the world and people have had to live in locked down societies. The first AES case in …

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Modi government created rural distress: Congress
5 years, 9 months ago

Modi government created rural distress: Congress

The Quint  

New Delhi, March 29 The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of quietly squeezing funds meant for the MGNREGA scheme, and said pro-rich and anti-poor policies of his government created "rampant and unimaginable rural distress" in the past five years. Congress Spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi said even as Modi and his ministers mocked the minimum income guarantee scheme "Nyay" …

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