The Election Commission of India today said it is ready and willing to act on the subject of increased disclosure related to funding of electoral promises. Chief Election Commission of India Rajiv Kumar made the announcement after declaring the dates for the upcoming state assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. Kumar […]
The facility of supporting ‘ration cards’ from out-of-state residents has been extended to 12 states in India, according to data from the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution. Ration cards in 12 states have been made interoperable with each other and holders of such cards can obtain food grains at subsidized rates from […]
PM Kisan, one of the world’s largest welfare schemes with a targeted beneficiary strength of 140 million, seems to be running well behind schedule, going by data on the disbursement of funds. The scheme was started on Dec 1 2018, and has so far enrolled only around 7 cr (70 million) farmers against the target […]
Responding to widespread confusion, the Congress Party offered further details about Rahul Gandhi’s new Rs 12,000 minimum income guarantee scheme. UPDATE: The Congress on Tuesday changed the scheme announced on Monday, and removed any reference to Rs 12,000. It clarified that the scheme will only apply to the bottom 20%, and their income levels will […]
The government’s ‘free LPG connection’ scheme, Ujjwala scheme has crossed the 7 crore-target, making it one of the most successful programs of the current government. The scheme launched on May 1, 2016 with a target of providing LPG connections to 5 crore low-income households, and achieved the target in a record of time of 28 […]
Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Rajasthan are the three states that have been the biggest beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which promises 100 days of manual labor to anyone who is interested. Tamil Nadu generated 126.04 cr days of work under the scheme in the last four years, accounting for […]
Going by indications from the Unique ID Authority of India, Aadhaar numbers could soon be linked to people’s images, allowing the government and corporations to identify people from their photographs and videos. “UIDAI introduces yet another landmark technology for authentication – Face Authentication,” tweeted @ceo_uidai, the official handle of the CEO of UID Authority of […]
Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said that the current spike in petrol and diesel price is ‘temporary’ and related to the impact of Hurricane Harvey in the US. “The prices have gone up because some of the refining capacity has been shut down (in the US). It is temporary,” Pradhan said today, in response to […]
State Bank of India has opened the largest number of accounts under India’s universal pension scheme for the unorganized sector, the government said today. State Bank of India has opened 51,000 out of the total 3.07 lakh pension accounts opened by banks under the scheme, which guarantees a rate of return of at least 8%. […]
