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Congress' 2024 Manifesto Focuses On Unemployment, Promises Caste Census
The Congress today released its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with a focus on unemployment, promises socio economic caste census.
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University Body Releases Measures To Benefit Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups
UGC has asked the universities and higher educational institutions to introduced bridge course, earn-while schemes and outreach programmes.
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What Is Popular Front Of India - An Explainer Amid India's Largest Raids
In 2006, leaders of three like-minded outfits from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka sat together and discussed the need for forming a pan-India organisation for empowering the Muslim community from their socio, economic and political backwardness.
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No Plan To Release 2011 Caste Census Data: Centre In Lok Sabha
The government has no plans to release at this stage the caste data collected under the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
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CBI Takes Over Caste Census Fraud Case Amid Political Row
Amid the growing demand for caste census from several opposition parties and the centre stonewalling it, the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI has opened a criminal investigation to probe alleged cheating and falsification of census data.
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Delhi Government Bars Bloomberg-Funded Charity From Tobacco Control Work
A small Indian non-profit funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies will not be allowed to carry out tobacco-control work in New Delhi after it failed to disclose its funding, according to a city government official and a memo seen by Reuters.
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Ayushman Bharat Scheme To Be Launched on September 25. 5 Things To Know
In Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that his government will launch the ambitious Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme on September 25, 2018. Modi's Ayushman Bharat scheme, touted as the world's largest healthcare scheme, aims to provide a coverage of Rs five lakh per family annually. The target beneficiaries of the sch...
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Ayushman Bharat: 5 Key Features Of Mega Healthcare Scheme
Ayushman Bharat, often referred to as 'Modicare', is expected to be launched by the Union government on August 15. According to a release issued by Press Information Bureau (PIB), this scheme has a benefit cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year. The target beneficiaries of the scheme are more than 10 crore families belonging to poor and vulnerable ...
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Facebook May Soon Tell If You Are Rich Or Poor
Facebook has filed a patent application for a technology that will automatically detect the users' socio-economic status and segregate them in one of three classes -- working class, middle class or upper class.
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Poverty Versus Obesity and Alcohol: What's More Deadly for Your Life?
A new study reveals that people living in poverty are at a higher death risk than obese people and alcoholics.
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In Most of Rural India, Rs 5000 is the Highest Wage
The highest earning member in about three-fourths of all rural households in the country made less than Rs 5,000 per month, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 released today.
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Central Government Releases Socio Economic and Caste Census
Just 4.6 per cent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 per cent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said today.
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India's poverty line likely to be revisited by new panel
In the wake of the Planning Commission's controversial definition of povery last year, a new panel is likely to be formed to consider the country's socio-economic profile being brought out by the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) to determine the poverty line.
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Congress' 2024 Manifesto Focuses On Unemployment, Promises Caste Census
The Congress today released its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with a focus on unemployment, promises socio economic caste census.
-
University Body Releases Measures To Benefit Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups
UGC has asked the universities and higher educational institutions to introduced bridge course, earn-while schemes and outreach programmes.
-
What Is Popular Front Of India - An Explainer Amid India's Largest Raids
In 2006, leaders of three like-minded outfits from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka sat together and discussed the need for forming a pan-India organisation for empowering the Muslim community from their socio, economic and political backwardness.
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No Plan To Release 2011 Caste Census Data: Centre In Lok Sabha
The government has no plans to release at this stage the caste data collected under the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
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CBI Takes Over Caste Census Fraud Case Amid Political Row
Amid the growing demand for caste census from several opposition parties and the centre stonewalling it, the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI has opened a criminal investigation to probe alleged cheating and falsification of census data.
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Delhi Government Bars Bloomberg-Funded Charity From Tobacco Control Work
A small Indian non-profit funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies will not be allowed to carry out tobacco-control work in New Delhi after it failed to disclose its funding, according to a city government official and a memo seen by Reuters.
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Ayushman Bharat Scheme To Be Launched on September 25. 5 Things To Know
In Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that his government will launch the ambitious Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme on September 25, 2018. Modi's Ayushman Bharat scheme, touted as the world's largest healthcare scheme, aims to provide a coverage of Rs five lakh per family annually. The target beneficiaries of the sch...
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Ayushman Bharat: 5 Key Features Of Mega Healthcare Scheme
Ayushman Bharat, often referred to as 'Modicare', is expected to be launched by the Union government on August 15. According to a release issued by Press Information Bureau (PIB), this scheme has a benefit cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year. The target beneficiaries of the scheme are more than 10 crore families belonging to poor and vulnerable ...
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Facebook May Soon Tell If You Are Rich Or Poor
Facebook has filed a patent application for a technology that will automatically detect the users' socio-economic status and segregate them in one of three classes -- working class, middle class or upper class.
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Poverty Versus Obesity and Alcohol: What's More Deadly for Your Life?
A new study reveals that people living in poverty are at a higher death risk than obese people and alcoholics.
-
In Most of Rural India, Rs 5000 is the Highest Wage
The highest earning member in about three-fourths of all rural households in the country made less than Rs 5,000 per month, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 released today.
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Central Government Releases Socio Economic and Caste Census
Just 4.6 per cent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 per cent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said today.
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India's poverty line likely to be revisited by new panel
In the wake of the Planning Commission's controversial definition of povery last year, a new panel is likely to be formed to consider the country's socio-economic profile being brought out by the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) to determine the poverty line.
