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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Rural Development

Modi govt is flaunting two schemes — one that brings light & one that cuts carbon output

Vikram Sampath -
PM Modi’s Saubhagya scheme electrified 45,000 houses per day and UJALA scheme has distributed over 34.75 crore LED bulbs.

Poor electricity service quality plagues Modi’s Saubhagya scheme, but there are ways out

Johannes Urpelainen -
Modi's ambitious rural electrification scheme will work if it breaks away from the traps of power theft, non-repayment and low electricity demand.

Budget 2019: The rise in funding for MGNREGA, charted

Ruhi Tewari -
Despite PM Modi terming MGNREGA as a 'UPA failure', his govt has allocated Rs 60,000 crore in the interim budget — the highest ever for the scheme.

Lawmakers & activists write to PM Modi raising concerns over MGNREGA fund crunch

PTI -
More than 99% fund of the MGNREGA scheme was reportedly exhausted by 1 January 2019, three months before the end of the financial year.

Sorry urban voters, election 2019 is all about wooing the rural Indian

Ruhi Tewari -
The political theatre has shifted to rural India ahead of the 2019 election.

How Modi stopped rural Indian women from inhaling an equivalent of 400 cigarettes per day

Vikram Sampath -
Narendra Modi government’s Ujjwala scheme has been a game-changer for millions of women across India.

Gujarat is home to some of India’s best villages but Telangana’s Tellapur is No. 1

Ruhi Tewari -
Rural Development Ministry’s rankings show Punjab is second to Gujarat in the number of villages in the top 30, while Andhra has the most in top 10.

Address jati, and not just caste, to fix rural welfare schemes like MGNREGA

Shareen Joshi -
Even within disadvantaged Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, some jatis are significantly worse off than others Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India,...

Game-changing Green Revolution may have led to Congress party’s decline in India

Aditya Dasgupta -
Green Revolution was comparable in magnitude to the impact of the industrial revolution on manufacturing and led to the rise of agrarian opposition parties in India.

Power distribution companies are slowing down Narendra Modi’s Saubhagya scheme

Johannes Urpelainen -
The Saubhagya scheme is crawling as distribution companies lack both capacity and incentive to supply to poor households.
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Opinion

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

The Beckhams’ PR game is on track. Victoria’s 50th birthday was a pop culture moment

BJP 2024 manifesto on investment, farm income, panchayati raj—lack of clarity is worrying

Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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