Jan 29, 2025 · The programme makes provisions for an additional 50 work days for every Scheduled Tribe household in a forest area, provided these households have no other private property except for the land rights provided under the Forest Rights Act, 2006. In addition to this, there is a provision for providing an additional 50 days of wage employment in a financial year in areas hit by drought or other ...

Jan 31, 2022 · When you look at the new budget documents that will be published this February, look out for these three numbers: the budget estimates or BE, which will tell you what the government plans or had planned to allocate to each ministry, the revised estimates or RE, which will tell you how much the budget was revised from the BE, and third, the actual amount spent, or expenditure, which will be ...

Dec 30, 2024 · The Medical Certification of Cause of Death is compiled under the Civil Registration System in accordance with the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and adheres to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - Tenth Revision (1993). Collected by state governments and published by the Office of the Registrar General, this data is crucial for researchers, health planners, and ...

Jan 21, 2023 · In late November 2022, IndiaSpend met injured workers and relatives of workers who have died in accidents in factories and construction sites in Delhi and Ahmedabad, to understand the barriers to recovery and redress. Safety at factories is often lax, support after an accident is inadequate, and financial and job insecurity and government apathy make pursuing a case against owners and/or ...

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Oct 29, 2024 · Conflicting priorities. Historically, widespread hunting for sport and food precipitated the GIB’s decline, accelerated by vehicular access to remote areas, as IndiaSpend reported in May 2023. But today, the continued decline in the GIB population has been triggered by loss and degradation of grasslands which are their habitat.

Jan 2, 2025 · Previously, from 2005 through 2015, about 271 million Indians had escaped poverty. This year, when former prime minister Manmohan Singh retired from the Rajya Sabha, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge credited Singh for the feat. “Thanks to your policies, India was able to lift 27 crore people, the highest number of poor people, out of poverty,” Kharge wrote in a letter to Singh.

Nov 18, 2024 · The global climate conference, called the 29th Conference of Parties or COP29 is underway in Azerbaijan, and countries have already engaged in argument on agenda items -- most significantly, a new finance goal that determines how much developing countries like India should receive to combat and adapt to climate change. The money is important for these countries to implement their existing ...

Dec 28, 2024 · India needs trillions of dollars to adapt to the effects of climate change, which is probably why its representatives were so disappointed with the way a new global finance goal was adopted at last month’s annual climate change conference in Azerbaijan. The Indian delegation had called the newly adopted sum to be disbursed to developing countries to cope with climate change as ‘paltry’.

Oct 18, 2024 · As per the Paris Agreement, countries are supposed to agree on the next finance goal that will come into effect 2025 onwards, taking the $100 billion as the floor and raising it suitably as per developing countries’ needs.This new corpus will be called the New Collective Quantified Goal on Finance or NCQG.India was one of the few countries in the world to put a number to this finance goal ...