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UP budget focuses on farmer welfare, women and Ayodhya
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Big budgetary allocations towards road and expressway construction and clean drinking water facilities were made for ongoing projects, ahead of next year’s assembly election, while also setting aside sufficient funds for the beautification and tourism facilities in Ayodhya and Varanasi.
The Uttar Pradesh government laid special emphasis on schemes related to farmer welfare in a Rs 5.5 lakh crore budget presented on Monday, along with nutrition of women and children, and extended social security to landless farmers and unorganised sector workers whose plight was laid bare during the migrant crisis, in what the CM called a budget that reflected an Atmanirbhar Uttar Pradesh .
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Kaur s incarceration has amplified the cause she stands for: that of a poor and marginalised labour force that has almost no rights and is completely at the mercy of employers.
Nodeep, a member of the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan, was arrested on January 12 when she participated in a protest held by unpaid labourers near the Singhu border. Photo: Twitter/@meenaharris
Rights13/Feb/2021
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Farmers shout slogans at Singhu border during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the Centres new farm laws, in New Delhi, in New Delhi, Friday, December 11, 2020. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary
Politics21/Jan/2021
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