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PM the 'power centre in governance', says Digvijaya
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh maintained today that party President Sonia Gandhi has not interfered in the functioning of the government even once and that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the "power centre in governance." #Politics #India #Sonia Gandhi #Manmohan Singh #Congress #Digvijaya Singh #NewsTracker #NREGA #Janardan Dwivedi
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Did Indira abolish bonded labour or Sonia? NREGA's tall claims
The UPA ads eulogising MGNREGA as a a huge success needs to be taken with bags of salt. The scheme did make a difference, but not as is claimed. #India #Sonia Gandhi #NREGA #Indira Gandhi #MGNREGA #Social Spending #Bonded labour
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Banks seek Aadhaar number for LPG susbsidy payment
LPG consumers will get about Rs 4,000 per annum in cash from the government, and they will have to then buy LPG at market price of Rs 901.50 per 14.2-kg cylinder #NREGA #Chidambaram #Aadhaar #LPG #PolicyWatch #Direct Benefit Transfer
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Welfare programmes change people's behaviours
Welfare programmes everywhere change human behaviour. NREGA too has done so by preventing migration to cities - something that's needed for progress. #NREGA #Welfare economics #Employment law #WelfareState
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The Hindu
‘Two years not adequate to evaluate new government’
On the eve of Trinamool Congress government’s completion of two years in office, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said, two years was not an adequate time to evaluate the performance of her government, which carried the ‘baggage’ of the Left Fron #Trinamool Congress #Mamata Banerjee #Facebook
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India Today
From NREGA worker to crorepati club: She's been a labourer and a bus conductor. Now Sanooja is the winner of the Malayalam KBC
"Which among the following institutions was inaugurated at the Chamber of Princes in the Indian Parliament building on January 28, 1950, and moved out to its own premises in 1958?" Options: A. Reserve Bank of India; B: Planning Commission; C: Election Co #India
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Moneycontrol.com
Did Indira end bonded labour or Sonia? NREGA's tall claims
Success, they claim, has many fathers. It seems, success also spawns multiple motherhood claims. In 1975, Indira Gandhi âabolishedâ bonded labour. Full page advertisements were released and sections of the pliant print media were packed off to rural area #Sonia Gandhi #Mahatma Gandhi #Indian National Congress




