The additional allocation comes after several lawmakers, prominent civil society members, activists, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concerns over fund crunch

The gau raksha cess will be levied across UP from this week.

GDP numbers are misleading, RBI's autonomy is in extreme danger and demonetisation is the biggest banking scam, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha claims in his new book

Getting access and then converting it to inclusion and adoption through appropriate products is the target.

On Labour Day 2016, many workers in Jharkhand returned Rs 5 (that year's wage rate hike) to the Prime Minister. The next year on Labour Day workers returned Rupee 1 to the PM. This was done to protest against the meagre hike in the wage rate. In 2018-19, there has been no increment in wage rates in 10 states.

The larger companies will make some noise, but will adopt it, because they have no choice and will start looking at productivity improvement and automation to compensate for the increase in costs. The MSME sector will be impacted.

The last time the MGNREGA wages and state minimum wages were aligned was in 2009, but since then several states have announced upward revisions arbitrarily.

Singh said greater emphasis is being given to agricultural education, research and extension activities and extension of the facilities for irrigation, low-cost organic farming, crop insurance, national agricultural market, horticulture development and agro forestry remain focus areas.

However, it is still mandatory to link your welfare schemes with Aadhaar to get social welfare benefits under Article 7. The SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said the government can't insist on mandatory Aadhaar linking with mobile phones, passports, PAN, etc.