The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has said it has no information on public requests – and RTI documents show that the ministry hastily issued a circular on the renaming after Modi's tweet.
PM Modi had said that he'd been getting many requests to rename the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award after Major Dhyan Chand. But now the PMO has refused to disclose how many requests it'd received.
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Poll manifestos of several parties most notably the Congress and Kamal Haasan’s MNM have promised an unconventional but populist scheme of doling out an allowance, or salary, to homemakers. Questions spring up from this: Should homemakers be paid for their household work and is there a better alternative to make them financially independent. Supreme Court advocate and AIDWA vice president
Kirti Singh, former international athlete
Ashwini Nachappa, equal rights campaigner
Barkha Trehan, and women’s rights activist and Centre for Social Research director
Dr Ranjana Kumari weigh in on the topic.
Kirti Singh: What the parties have proposed are welfare measures and they are welcome, but ultimately these are a form of dole for housewives and widows. Unless these are linked with an assessment of what an individual is entitled to a fair and just entitlement these wouldn’t be of much help. Also, we have to know the scope