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Updated: It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says. Share Article AAA Women work at a site on the outskirts of Ajmer under the MGNREGA scheme. File   | Photo Credit: PTI It is to assess Budget benefits for SC/STs, Rural Development Secretary says. The decision to split MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) wage payments by caste categories was done on the advice of the Finance Ministry in order to assess and highlight the benefits flowing from budgetary outlay towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Rural Development Secret...

After a fortnight an FIR has been lodged in Mumbai against television star Munmun Dutta. On May 10, 2021, the actress through her verified Instagram handle shared a video in which she allegedly used a 'casteist slur'.

We do not support such language. We will take action, says registrar A recent video of an Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ( IIT-KGP) professor, where she is allegedly heard abusing the students during a virtual class, has kicked up a storm on social media and among academics. In the short two-minute video clip, Seema Singh, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Science, is heard screaming at a group of preparatory students belonging to the SC and ST communities who quietly bore the insult. “A few hours ago, I got an email in this regard. In the IIT system, we do not suppor...

: Monday, April 5, 2021, 5:40 PM IST Banks sanctioned Rs 25,586 cr to 1.14 lakh Stand-Up India accounts in 5 years: Finance Ministry The Finance Ministry on Sunday said banks have sanctioned Rs 25,586 crore to about 1,14,322 beneficiaries under the Stand-Up India Scheme in the last five years for promoting entrepreneurship among women and SC & STs. The objective of Stand-Up India is to promote entrepreneurship amongst women, Scheduled Castes (SC) & Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories, to help them in starting a greenfield enterprise in trading, manufacturing and services sector, by both rea...

Telangana’s forests lost in the woods | Rejected podu land claimants kept in the dark Updated Apr 5, 2021, 4:58 am IST The tribal welfare department, had processed 96,676 claims and approved farming rights over 3.08 lakh acres of forest land in the state  Though the state government has repeatedly said that it will address once and for all the issue of podu lands and provide 'some kind of pattas' to the claimants, it might not be as simple as it sounds. (DC file photo) Hyderabad: The forests in Telangana state are under siege, from thousands of fires chewing through hundreds of acres r...