THE HINDU NEWSPAPER PDF 02-FEB-2022

THE HINDU NEWSPAPER PDF 02-FEB-2022

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                  Front Page 

>Medium WAVE [BUDGET]

>FM moots tax on virtual assets 

>5G Services to roll out in FY23: Sitharaman

                   Text and context

>The long road to timely MGNREGA payments

                   NEWS

>Big push to improve connectively to villages along China border  (various schemes e.g PMGSY)

> All post offices to come under core banking ( financial inclusion)

           SOCIAL SECTOR                  

       >  MGNREGS allocation cut by 25 % to 73000        crores  

>MGNREGA Benefits, challenges, issues with payment delay – how can it be resolvedP

>PM Awas Yojana gets an allocation of ₹48,000 cr. 

          •PM Awas Yojana

• Digital varsity and e-content for schools planned 
• ‘New-generation anganwadis’ on the cards 

        

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Important points about above terms :-

• MGNREGA(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005) is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. In 2006, it was finally accepted in the parliament and commenced implementation in 200 districts of India. It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

•PMJSY :- The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched by the Govt. of India to provide connectivity to unconnected Habitations as part of a poverty reduction strategy. Govt. of India is endeavoring to set high and uniform technical and management standards and facilitating policy development and planning at State level in order to ensure sustainable management of the rural roads network.

According to latest figures made available by the State Governments under a survey to identify Core Network as part of the PMGSY programme, about 1.67 lakh Unconnected Habitations are eligible for coverage under the programme. This involves construction of about 3.71 lakh km. of roads for New Connectivity and 3.68 lakh km. under upgradation.

•PM Aawas yojna :-The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an initiative of the Government of India which aims at providing affordable housing to the urban poor by the year 2022. The scheme was first launched on 1 June 2015. The interest rate for the PMAY scheme starts at 6.50% p.a. and can be availed for a tenure of up to 20 years.The last date for availing the PMAY CLSS scheme for the LIG and EWS categories has been extended to 31 March 2022.