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NEW DELHI:  Only 26% of funds sanctioned under three different verticals of the government’s flagship PM Awas Yojana (Urban) has been utilised in last six years of its implementation and as a result, only 30% of the sanctioned houses could be constructed during the period. Only 25% of the sanctioned funds have been spent under In-Situ Slum Redevelopment (ISSR), while the percentage for Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) segment is 26%. Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) vertical also showed similar pattern with only 27% of sanctioned budget spent. Poor fund utilisation reflected in de...

Express News Service NEW DELHI:  Despite all its ‘Digital India’ push, the Modi government has been unable to make India take the digital route for getting inoculated against Covid-19. More than three-fourth of the total vaccine doses have been administered through onsite/walk-in vaccinations, the Centre has accepted in an affidavit to Supreme Court. “As on 23.06.2021, out of the 32.22 crore beneficiaries registered on CoWIN, 19.12 crore (nearly 59%) beneficiaries have been registered in the on-site mode,” stated the affidavit submitted last week. “As per the data available on CoWI...

Express News Service NEW DELHI:  The interest rate cut on small saving schemes announced on March 31 and which was withdrawn hours later by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as an "oversight" had the go-ahead of both the ministry as well as the Election Commission (EC), an RTI application filed by this newspaper revealed.  The RTI reply disclosed the swift movement of letters between the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and the EC. The DEA had to seek clearance from the EC as the Model Code of Conduct was imposed due to Assembly polls. Details of communications between the DEA a...

The average expenditure per admission in a private hospital was Rs 15,500 while in a public hospital it was Rs 10,042.

Garib Kalyan plan: No migrants completed training, says Parliamentary panel report Announced the scheme in June last year, the government had targeted to cover nearly three lakh labourers. However, nearly 86,000 workers could be enrolled till February this year. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- People wearing masks stand in a queue for a train at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai. (Photo | AP) Express News Service NEW DELHI:  Not a single migrant worker has completed skill training under the ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan’, a government’s employment-cum-rural public works initiative to...