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News ScanRs 6,000 may be new threshold for economically weaker sections
Government surveys reveal that income levels have risen for those designated ‘economically weaker sections’. The government proposes revising the threshold limit for these sections from Rs 3,300 to Rs 6,000 a month More... Economic Survey suggests replacing PDS with food couponsIndia’s 2010 Economic Survey suggests doing away with food and fertiliser subsidies and providing the poor food coupons to exchange at market prices More... ‘Lapses’ in NREGA implementation admitted on anniversary dayEven as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admits there have been “lapses” in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, its architects Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy stay away from a function to mark four years of the scheme’s existence More... SC notice to states/UTs on shelters for homelessThe Supreme Court of India has issued a notice to all states and Union Territories seeking their response to suggestions for setting up night shelters for the urban homeless and community kitchens for poor people More... Employment guarantee scheme under scanner after hunger deathA landless labourer dies on Christmas day after going without food for five days. Neither he nor his wife, who was a job card holder under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, knew they could demand work or avail of unemployment benefits as a right More... New poverty line formula shows increase in number of rural poorOne in three Indians lives below the poverty line according to the Tendulkar Committee report which used a measurement of goods and services, rather than calorie intake, to calculate poverty More... Global hunger worsening, warns UNMore than 1 billion people go to bed hungry every day as the deadly combination of severe food shortages and one of the worst global financial crises in living memory has shrunk food aid to an all-time low, says a UN body More... NREGA renamed Mahatma National Rural Employment Guarantee ActThe government has renamed its flagship rural job guarantee programme -– the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme -- after Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary. The Centre has also decided to appoint 100 prominent people from across the country to carry out independent evaluations and monitoring of the scheme More... India: Economic powerhouse or nutritional weakling?Despite the recent economic boom in India, at least 46% of its children up to the age of 3 still suffer from malnutrition making the country home to a third of the world’s malnourished children, says a recent study More... |
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