75th year of independence: India@75 celebrations to begin next month
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The idea is to ‘create a vision’ for India@2047. Apart from social and cultural events scientific achievements and technological advancements will be showcased. It will highlight contributions of some freedom fighters and locations that have remained obscure.
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At inter-ministerial meetings and reviews held this week, all ministries were asked to initiate all round India@75 celebrations from next month.
New Delhi: The Centre will launch Bharat ka Amrut Mahotsav, the countdown to India’s 75th year of independence, next month, amid the pandemic and mass vaccination. The Modi government has decided to celebrate 75 years of Indian independence 75 weeks before August 15 2022, ET has learnt.
Minorities Rights Day 2020: History, importance and why is it observed Updated Dec 18, 2020 | 09:47 IST
The Minorities Rights Day is observed in India every year on December 18. The day is important as it helps us understand the issues facing the minorities in India and create awareness about their rights. The Minorities Rights Day in India was first observed on December 18, 2013. | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The ministry was carved out of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
New Delhi: Every nation in the world has its share of minorities, be it linguistic, cultural or ethnic. Preserving and protecting their rights is a challenge for almost all governments. In India, we observe Minorities Rights Day every year on December 18 with an aim to create awareness about their rights. The day also focuses on the issues facing the minorities in the country.
National Minorities Rights Day focuses on the rights of religious minorities in India
National Minorities Rights Day 2020: India is a country of unity in diversity. The Constitution of India gives equal rights to all citizens of the country irrespective of their linguistic, ethnic, cultural, and religious background. The National Minorities Rights Day is observed in India, every year on December 18, to safeguard the Constitutionally-guaranteed rights of religious minorities in the country. In 1992, the United Nations adopted the Statement on the Individual s Rights belonging to religious, linguistic or ethnic minorities and the same year the National Commission for Minorities was set up by the Government of India. The Ministry of Minority Affairs was established in January 26, 2006. It was carved out of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. On National Minorities Rights Day let us take a look at some of the rights and freedom guaranteed by the Constitution to the minori
Scholarship scam: Jharkhand CM grants approval for probe into fraud
The pre-Matric scholarship scheme, launched in 2008, is meant to help students of minority communities from families with annual income below Rs 1 lakh. In 2019-20, the Ministry of Minority Affairs disbursed Rs 61 crore under this scheme to Jharkhand. Updated: December 15, 2020 9:35:25 am
Hemant Soren
Clearing the way for a statewide probe based on the findings of an investigation by The Indian Express, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has “given his approval” for the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to initiate a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into the Pre-Matric scholarship scam in which poor minority students were duped by a nexus of middlemen, school authorities, state officials, and bank staff.
Aadhaar Continues to Trip Up Direct Benefit Transfer Schemes, Duping Thousands: Report
Calling the system a direct benefit to scammers, the report highlights how real beneficiaries are often cheated by a system that has been made opaque.
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New Delhi: Even after rounds of clarifications from the Reserve Bank of India and the Unique Identification Authority of India, and five years after a Supreme Court order rendering the interlinking of Aadhaar and bank accounts voluntary, Aadhaar cards continue to pose a big roadblock when it comes to Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes.
Successive reports, especially in the severe financial crunch presented by the lockdown, have pointed out that not only has Aadhaar continued to trip people availing themselves of the Public Distribution System and MGNREGS, it is also the prime problem for disbursement of money for scholarships, the PM Kisan scheme, LPG subsidies and so on.