Mamata s cash-transfer state earns her tremendous support – but also generates resentment
Mamata s cash-transfer state earns her tremendous support – but also generates resentment
Welfare is so fundamental that even communal polarisation and ‘cut money’ complaints fall along lines of whether the person received state benefits or not. Shoaib Daniyal
Arjun Mahato has a dim view of the Trinamool Congress cadre in his area. “Can you imagine, they are telling people that if [West Bengal Chief Minister] Mamata [Banerjee] loses, Kanyashree will shut down?” he says with disgust. “All the Trinamool knows how to do is mithya prachar, fake propaganda.”
A Bharatiya Janata Party worker in the district of Purulia, Mahato’s argument is probably correct. It is unlikely that even if the BJP were to win in the ongoing 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, it would shut down Kanyashree – the Trinamool’s popular 2013 cash transfer scheme to teenage schoolgirls aimed at pre
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Guidelines have been issued: KSE
Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj K.S. Eshwarappa has said that village task forces will be constituted to avoid the spread of COVID-19 infection in rural areas.
Speaking to presspersons in Shivamogga on Thursday, the Minister said the government had issued guidelines for the rural task forces. The forces would involve gram panchayat presidents, vice-presidents, members, village accountants, beat police, health workers, anganwadi workers, ASHAs, a local doctor, and panchayat development officer. A direction had been issued to constitute such task forces at the gram panchayat and village levels.
Keep track
The members will identify people aged above 65 and keep a track of their health. They will ensure those enrolled for a job under MNREGA are divided into small groups and if any of them develop symptoms, necessary measures will be taken. Anganwadi workers and ASHAs will identify people with symptoms and take them to the nearest ho
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Sukhbir Badal sounds poll bugle with attack against Amarinder Singh s misrule ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 23:39 IST
Jalalabad (Punjab) [India], March 14 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday formally blew the poll bugle with a blistering attack against Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for presiding over four years of brazen misrule .
Addressing a massive rally at the Anaj Mandi here, the SAD president also challenged the chief minister to tell one thing he had done for the people of the state in the last four years and said You will have to answer for your failings. People will not remain quiet any longer .