Allow partial functioning of NBFCs, FIDC to Maha govt
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Mumbai, April 5 : The Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) has requested the Maharashtra government to allow partial functioning of RBI-approved non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) amid the restrictions imposed to tackle the Covid surge.
In a letter to the state Chief Secretary, the industry body said that a large number of deposit holders and debenture holders are senior citizens who depend on the interest on fixed deposit and debentures paid on monthly or quarterly basis. Any delay in servicing them will upset their livelihood, it added.
Assam on high alert, partial lockdown on the cards
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GUWAHATI: For the first time for the last two months (February & March) the State has recorded more than 60 fresh COVID-19 positive cases in a single day.
Out of 12,322 COVID-19 tests conducted on Friday (April 2) 63 persons tested positive. Even though the COVID positivity rate of the State stands at 0.51%, doctors and health workers have warned that there is absolutely no reason to become complacent as the rise of positive cases is slow but steady. More than 30 people in Guwahati have been infected with COVID-19 in the last three days.
Between March 1 and 31, 2021 the State has been recording 30 to 50 positive cases every day. The similar was the trend in February this year.
The ministry said its letter has been "erroneously reported" by a section of media that has presented a "distorted and highly editorialised opinion" of a simple observation.
New Delhi, April 3
Noting that it has nothing against the farmers of Punjab, the Centre on Saturday issued a clarification saying that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) letter to the state Chief Secretary was only intended to highlight the issue bonded labourers in border villages and to seek appropriate action against human trafficking syndicates.
In an official statement the MHA said, “A section of the media has erroneously reported that this Ministry has written to the Punjab Government allegedly leveling grave charges against the farmers of the state. These news reports are misleading and present a distorted and highly editorialised opinion of a simple observation about a socioeconomic problem emerging from four sensitive border districts of Punjab over a period of two years, which has been brought to the attention of this Ministry by the concerned CAPF.”
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MHA asks Punjab to take action against people giving drugs to migrants to work for long hours in fields ANI | Updated: Apr 02, 2021 16:22 IST
By Ankur Sharma
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has written a letter to the Punjab government based on a report of Border Security Force (BSF) wherein the force has informed the ministry that they had apprehended 58 Indian nationals from the border areas who were given drugs and forced to work as bonded labourers. Border Security Force has informed the ministry that they had apprehended 58 Indian nationals from the border areas of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Ferozepur and Abohar Punjab in the years 2019 and 2020. During the course of questioning, it emerged that most of them were either mentally challenged or were in a feeble state of mind and have been working as bonded labourers with farmers in border villages of Punjab, the MHA said.