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Jan 29, 2025 · The programme makes provisions for an additional 50 work days for every Scheduled Tribe household in a forest area, provided these households have no other private property except for the land rights provided under the Forest Rights Act, 2006. In addition to this, there is a provision for providing an additional 50 days of wage employment in a financial year in areas hit by drought or other ...

Jan 21, 2023 · In late November 2022, IndiaSpend met injured workers and relatives of workers who have died in accidents in factories and construction sites in Delhi and Ahmedabad, to understand the barriers to recovery and redress. Safety at factories is often lax, support after an accident is inadequate, and financial and job insecurity and government apathy make pursuing a case against owners and/or ...

Dec 31, 2024 · As 2024 comes to a close, we look at how India fought against vector-borne diseases. Increasing prevalence. The number of kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis) cases dropped to a tenth of their number in 2018. “For elimination status, India needs to reduce the number of kala azar cases to less than 1 for every 10,000 people,” explained Nirmal Ganguly, microbiologist and immunologist.

Nov 23, 2024 · Further, the global fashion industry is also the second-biggest consumer of water, we had reported. It takes 3,781 litres of water--equivalent to the amount of water a person drinks over a period of three years--to make a pair of jeans, starting from the production of cotton to the retail delivery of the final product.. Textile waste is divided into three categories: pre-consumer waste, which ...

Sep 24, 2024 · The framework document for teacher training, the final version of which was released in 2009, was called “National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education: Towards Preparing Professional and Humane Teacher” (or NCFTE). IndiaSpend spoke to aspiring teachers, teachers and teacher trainers to understand how the framework was working in practice, and what they felt they need from the ...

May 5, 2023 · The Sakhi One Stop Centre scheme of the WCD ministry under the Nirbhaya Fund, aims to support and assist women facing violence in public and private spaces, including spousal violence. However, despite having the potential to help hundreds of thousands of women, and being operational for over seven years, several issues prevent the centres and the larger scheme from effectively curbing ...

Oct 29, 2024 · Conflicting priorities. Historically, widespread hunting for sport and food precipitated the GIB’s decline, accelerated by vehicular access to remote areas, as IndiaSpend reported in May 2023. But today, the continued decline in the GIB population has been triggered by loss and degradation of grasslands which are their habitat.

Jul 3, 2023 · Hyderabad: Swanky offices and workspaces greet commuters as they cross K.R. Puram and enter Mahadevpura in India’s IT capital, Bengaluru.On one side are the offices of all the tech giants such as Samsung, Amazon and Deloitte, and on the other are restaurants ranging from fine dining to dhabas catering to the tastes of a diverse set of migrants who reside in Bengaluru’s IT belt.

Jan 7, 2025 · In another press release on January 7, the government said that HMPV, which was discovered in 2001, is one of the many respiratory viruses that can cause infections in people of all ages particularly during the winter and early spring months and that there was “no cause of concern for the public from HMPV”. “I think much of the reporting is …