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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicPradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana

Topic: Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana

Huge drop in rural women getting houses under Modi’s pet scheme, govt says few women left

Women’s welfare is one of Modi govt’s major election planks yet data shows a drop by half in the number of houses given to women.

In 2 yrs of overhaul, Modi govt’s rural housing scheme has doubled number of houses built

The PM Awaas Yojana (Grameen) aims to provide ‘housing for all’ by 2022, with its immediate objective set at reaching one crore families by 2018-19.

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Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts training Jammu & Kashmir cops 

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.