Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said her government is working to make the national capital the most dynamic urban economy in the country, stressing the need for Delhi to keep pace with India’s rapid economic growth. Speaking at the Bhartiya Vyapar Mahotsav at Bharat Mandapam, Gupta said trade and business would play a…
Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday sought to put the BJP’s Punjab strategy in a sharper political frame, asserting that the party’s “real alliance is with the people of Punjab” even as speculation continues after SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal’s recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra…
Pune: With two months into the academic year, around 57,000 students in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) schools are still waiting for essential supplies, including school bags, shoes, raincoats and other educational materials.The PCMC runs 110 primary and 24 secondary schools. Every year, the civic body provides the students with school bags, raincoats, shoes, socks, notebooks,…
Ladakh Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Sunday disbursed Rs 1.10 crore to more than 1,200 Pashmina goat herders as a production-based incentive, describing it as a major step towards strengthening the Pashmina sector and supporting nomadic herders. The incentive, introduced for the first time, is aimed at raising the income of herders and improving…
Thiruvananthapuram: CPM central committee member T M Thomas Isaac on Saturday challenged the state govt to produce the Union govt order that it claimed had forced it to end doorstep delivery of social security pensions to around 23 lakh beneficiaries.Addressing a news conference at AKG Centre, Isaac accused govt of misleading people by claiming that…
The loan waiver was declared by the state on June 2 Mumbai: Mahayuti govt’s Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar loan waiver’s disbursal began on Friday with Rs 5,027 crore released into the bank accounts of 6.2 lakh farmers of an estimated 54.6 lakh through direct benefit transfer.“Of the 18-19 lakh bank accounts identified, around 12 lakh accounts…
T’puram: Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan asked the state govt to roll back its plan to make direct benefit transfer (DBT) into Aadhaar-linked bank accounts mandatory for social security pension beneficiaries (except bedridden patients) and restore doorstep distribution through cooperative societies.He said the proposed change would adversely affect senior citizens, persons with disabilities, people with health…
The move is aimed at gradually phasing out the current practice of delivering pensions at beneficiaries’ doorsteps T’puram: The finance department has given in-principle approval for the disbursal of pensions exclusively through the direct benefit transfer (DBT) mode for social security and welfare fund board pension beneficiaries.The move, facilitated through an order issued on July…
Comfed has decided to set up 115 new milk collection societies in Patna Patna: Comfed, which markets its products under the Sudha brand, plans to raise daily milk procurement in Patna district by about 9,000 litres by the end of Sept by setting up 115 new milk collection societies.The expansion plan was reviewed at a…
Guwahati: Assam doubled Orunodoi aid in four flood-hit districts as chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the scheme’s latest version.Women beneficiaries in Sivasagar, Charaideo, Golaghat and Jorhat received Rs 2,500 each this month as a special relief measure. Beneficiaries elsewhere received Rs 1,100 after contributing Rs 150 each towards flood relief.“The govt has today provided…
