On Wednesday, envoy had pointed out a dirty service lane between Danish & Greek embassies. He clicked a video, thanking civic workers after they immediately got to work.
Swachagrahis are demanding compensation of Rs 250 a day along with promised bonus of Rs 10,000. CM Yogi promised minimum pay last year but it seemingly remains to be delivered.
Galvanising Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan scheme was launched in April 2018, but was beset by implementation gaps with ‘stakeholder ministries working in silos’.
Percentage up from 61% last year, says LocalCircles. Moreover, 71% respondents want govt to make stray animal management effectiveness a criteria for Swachh Bharat rankings.
While a tide of change has got the mill running in Ghaziabad, there is still a long way to go. The NCR town is ranked 18th in the list of cleanest cities.
While Surat & Vijayawada followed Indore in category of top 3 cities with over 1 lakh population, 3 Maharashtra towns — Vita, Lonavala & Saswad — judged cleanest among towns with below 1 lakh population.
For decades, policy-making in India has treated transgenders as invisible while allocating funds for creation of public facilities. But inclusivity can't be reduced to a token exercise.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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