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Elaborate arrangements are in place for chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s one-day visit to Malkangiri on Friday, which will be his first public meeting ....
State panchayati raj minister Pratap Jena on Tuesday said the three-tier panchayat elections in the state will be held on time and the government woul ....
Updated: It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says. Share Article AAA Women work at a site on the outskirts of Ajmer under the MGNREGA scheme. File | Photo Credit: PTI It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says. The decision to split MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) wage payments by caste categories was done on the advice of the Finance Ministry in order to assess and highlight the benefits flowing from budgetary outlay towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Rural Development Secretary N.N. Sinha told The Hindu on Thursday. He said this should not cause any delay in wage payments or any changes for beneficiaries if processes were put in place correctly, and added that there was no plan to focus MGNREGA only on districts with high SC and ST populations. ....
We do not support such language. We will take action, says registrar A recent video of an Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ( IIT-KGP) professor, where she is allegedly heard abusing the students during a virtual class, has kicked up a storm on social media and among academics. In the short two-minute video clip, Seema Singh, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Science, is heard screaming at a group of preparatory students belonging to the SC and ST communities who quietly bore the insult. “A few hours ago, I got an email in this regard. In the IIT system, we do not support such language. We will take some action,” Tamal Nath, registrar, told ....
: Monday, April 5, 2021, 5:40 PM IST Banks sanctioned Rs 25,586 cr to 1.14 lakh Stand-Up India accounts in 5 years: Finance Ministry The Finance Ministry on Sunday said banks have sanctioned Rs 25,586 crore to about 1,14,322 beneficiaries under the Stand-Up India Scheme in the last five years for promoting entrepreneurship among women and SC & STs. The objective of Stand-Up India is to promote entrepreneurship amongst women, Scheduled Castes (SC) & Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories, to help them in starting a greenfield enterprise in trading, manufacturing and services sector, by both ready and trainee borrowers, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. Under the scheme, bank loans between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 crore are provided to at least one Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch of Scheduled Commercial Banks. ....