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Thursday, June 20, 2024
TopicWelfare schemes

Topic: welfare schemes

India’s voters have chosen PM Modi’s welfare schemes over Congress’ cash promises in 2024

The new government will have to work on reducing the disparity between the rich and poor in India. The country needs to become self-reliant.

SubscriberWrites: How the government’s welfare schemes turn into a fad?

Rather than making it a public cause, if these had been made private causes involving every citizen of the country, some positive results would have been there.

India doesn’t need new taxes to uplift its poor. Existing welfare schemes are doing well

The social safety net for the Indian population is adequate, though improvements in health and education infrastructure are necessary and can be achieved through reallocating capital expenditure.

What to expect from interim budget? Big tax breaks unlikely, welfare schemes could see boost

The interim budget, to be presented on 1 February, is likely to maintain focus on fiscal consolidation along with a thrust on capital expenditure, although at a moderated pace. 

Call it revadi or welfare scheme, pre-poll promises are draining state exchequer

While the courts and media come down heavily on this culture, political parties continue to announce freebies. They do this under the pretext of promising a ‘welfare state’.

I-T to customs, officers of 12 services to be deployed as ‘rath prabharis’ to showcase 9 yrs of Modi govt

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has sought nomination of officers of joint secretary, director, dy secy ranks for 765 districts covering 2.69 lakh gram panchayats.

Women’s empowerment or election freebie? Inside MP govt’s Rs 8,000-cr ‘Ladli Behna’ scheme

Ladli Behna Yojana, launched months ahead of MP elections, promises Rs 1,000 per month to women between 23 to 60 years of age. ‘Ladli Behna Senas’ spread the good word.

Govt to release commemorative 50% silver Rs 100 coin to mark 100 episodes of Modi’s radio show Mann ki Baat

The coin, to be released on 30 April, will weigh 35 grams and include images of national symbols as well as of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio show.

Yoga, swacchata, Bapu, but very little Nehru — decoding 99 episodes of Modi’s Mann ki Baat

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio show Mann ki Baat has been lauded as a ground-breaking mass outreach programme and criticised as a "monthly monologue"...

G20 meeting echoed importance of digital public infrastructure but there are four challenges

The promise of SP-ODEs is compelling but it is worth reiterating that deploying them would not automatically translate into better welfare delivery.

On Camera

China can exploit the US fear of nuclear escalation & create trouble at borders

Is the world drifting toward another world war? China’s rise, hyper-nationalism, and border conflicts highlight similarities with the conditions that led to the previous world wars.

PM’s economic advisor asks if India needs a new poverty line, says multidimensional index not enough

Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.

China does a Galwan in South China Sea, Coast Guard carries spears and knives

Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.