THE employment guarantee scheme has been one of those government interventions in our country which have been most beneficial to the people. As per last year's revised estimates, the government had sanctioned Rs 61,084 crore for this scheme. But the NDA-II government has allocated only Rs 60,000 crore for the scheme in this year's budget – a reduction of Rs 1,084 crore when compared to the previous budget. Even though the scheme is supposed to provide 100 days of employment per worker, the average days of employment per worker so far is just 46 days.

The Assam state committee of the CPI(M) has submitted a memorandum to the home secretary, ministry of home affairs, government of India on July 4, seeking amendments to the Foreigners (Tribunal) Amendment Order, 2019, to ensure justice to the concerned people. Below we publish the text of the memorandum.“THAT according to the schedule 8 to the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 “any person, not satisfied with the outcome of the decisions of the claims and objections…..

THE process of filing nomination papers for the three tier panchayat elections in Tripura concluded on July 8 with widespread incidents of violence. The state election commission here, as was apprehended in an earlier column, completely failed to provide security and an atmosphere of free and fair election to the opposition. The figures of candidates from different political parties themselves are proof enough to show how the opposition has been barred from taking part in the election. Out of 6,111 seats of 591 gram panchayats, BJP fielded candidates in 6,127.

“KERALA healthiest state, Bihar worst’, this is how TOI has reported the NITI Aayog’s latest health index released on of June 25. The report covers the period of 2015 to 2016 and 2017 to 2018.

DISMISSING all hate campaign against CPI (M) and LDF government, more than 75,000 people across 44 local self government bodies have given an emphatic victory to the ruling front in the by-elections held on June 28. LDF has won 22 seats out of 44 seats across 13 districts in the state. UDF has won 17 seats and BJP won five. LDF wrested eight seats from the opposition UDF. The by-elections were held just one month after the Lok Sabha polls results were announced.