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Number of people who can benefit from government’s welfare programmes is going to swell. Currently, the Central government caps the entitlements under most welfare programmes to those below the poverty line, which is as low as Rs 12/day/person for rural areas and Rs 18/day/person for urban areas.

Ranchi, Oct.

But Research by JNU profs shows inequality has increased in both rural & urban areas

Apart from ensuring the immediate appointment of 18,000 panchayat development officers and as many junior engineers, the Centre has drawn up a blueprint to provide jobs to three-lakh youth in the 6

B K Chaturvedi committee’s recommendations may form part of the final 12th Plan document.

Inter-State inequalities have significantly narrowed in the last decade, but nutrition and sanitation are still a big concern, says the Human Development Report 2011.

GANGTOK: The Sikkim Government has submitted a memorandum to the Central Government for Rs 3500 crore for short term rehabilitation measures for the devastation caused by the recent earthquake, official sources said today.

The memorandum was not a comprehensive estimate of the total damages incurred by the State, but that for immediate and short term measures for repair and rehabilitation, the sources said.

Missing coal linkages threaten energy security

CHENNAI: Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday defended the new economic policy and poverty alleviation schemes of the Eleventh Plan saying it was too early to

Five Party-Ruled States Underpaying Workers, Face Anti-Poor Tag

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