Bengal Govt to Hand Over 5 Lakh Houses to Rural Poor
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One hundred and in Pune spilt over to capital receives foreign contribution has to adhere to the PANAGARH (Paschim Burd- three farmers were given Krishak Mumbai, with agitators dam- provisions of the FCRA and the rules made there wan): Chief Minister Mamata Samman on Monday. She praised aging scores of buses, and dis- under, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju Banerjee announced a slew of the efforts taken up by a few girls rupting road and rail traffic, said in his reply to a written question. projects on Wednesday, includ- who are getting benefits under the officials said. The licences of 4,842 NGOs have been can- ing a housing scheme for five lakh very popular Kanyashree project to Clashes between Dalit Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh celled in 2017 for violation of various provisions people and a mega Rs 3,000-crore stop 112 child marriages and asked groups and supporters of right- leader and grandson of B R of the FCRA, he said. road, for the development of rural the police to give the girls bravery wing Hindu organisations Ambedkar, has called a ‘Maha- The government had earlier said that the Bengal. awards. during the 200th-anniversary rashtra bandh’ on Wednesday. registrations of 18,868 NGOs were cancelled Five lakh people of the state Banerjee said the state govern- celebrations of the Bhima- Congress president Rahul by the home ministry between 2011 and 17 for would get houses under the state ment had spent Rs 1,200 as com- Koregaon battle in Pune dis- Gandhi called the event to cel- violating laws. governments “Bangla Gramin Abas pensation to help around 30 lakh trict had left a man dead on ebrate the Bhima-Koregaon It had also said foreign funding to Indian Yojna” on January 29, she said, fur- farmers whose cultivation was Monday. battle as a “potent symbol” of NGOs has come down drastically from Rs ther adding that another three lakh badly hit by recent floods. She said: In Pune, cases were reg- resistance to RSS-BJP’s “fas- 17,773 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 6,499 crore in had received assistance for build- “I have asked the cooperative banks istered by the Pimpri police cist vision”. 2016-17. ing houses under the “Geetanjali” to give loans to the farmers who against Milind Ekbote and In Mumbai, protesters dis- scheme. have Kishan credit cards. So far Sambhaji Bhide, who head rupted road traffic in the sub- The Chief Minister said this 89 lakh farmers have been given the Hindu Ekta Aghadi and urbs and local train services Most NPAs result of bank after inaugurating the “Mati Utsav” Kishan credit cards.” She further Shivraj Pratishthan respec- on the Harbour Line. They (soil festival) here to promote the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offering puja at Kankali Kali Temple in said the state government is buy- tively, for allegedly inciting the blocked roads in several areas, loans before April 2014: FM farm sector. The main programme, Birbhum on Tuesday PTI ing paddy directly from the farmers violence. The two organisations forced shops to shut down, and initiating the distribution, will be and said it had spent Rs 626 crore had opposed the celebration of also attacked a journalist of a NEW DELHI: The bulk of NPAs of banks have held at Netaji Indoor Stadium on chayats and Rural Development taken up several schemes to look on crop insurance premium. “British victory” in the battle. television news channel. arisen out of loans given before April 1, 2014, January 29 where the Chief Min- department has fixed March 2019 after the farmers,” she said add- She said a new road connect- Over 160 buses were dam- Protesters staged a rail roko due to aggressive lending and without proper ister will be present and people’s as the deadline to make the entire ing “nowhere in the country have ing Mechogram in East Midnapore aged in Mumbai by rampaging in Chembur. Groups of pro- risk assessment and even without being backed representatives along with senior state ODF. It may be recalled that the farmers been given so much with Murshidabad will be con- protesters over 100 of whom testers held demonstrations in by securities, the government on Tuesday said government officials will also be Nadia is India’s first district that respect. We have returned the land structed via Burdwan. were detained, police said. Chembur, Vikhroli, Mankhurd in the Rajya Sabha. present at functions which will be was declared ODF. to the farmers of Singur and cul- The Chief Minister urged the CM Devendra Fadnavis and Govandi, police said. Replying to questions on rising NPAs of held throughout the state. Banerjee said the Bengal gov- tivation has resumed. The Mati people to uphold religious har- ordered a judicial inquiry by Hundreds of protesters banks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley made it Banerjee also announced East ernment has given great emphasis Utsav had started in 2013, two years mony which is “Bengal’s tradition a sitting judge of the Bombay gathered in Priyadarshini, clear that the government has not written off any and West Burdwan as Open Defe- on the development of agriculture. before the United Nations began and history.” She reiterated that High Court into the Pune vio- Kurla, Sidharth Colony and bank loan and the liability of the borrowers for cation Free districts (ODF). So far, “Mati Utsav means love for Mother celebrating International Mother “Bengal will not tolerate the threat lence and appealed for calm. Amar Mahal areas on the East- repayment of these loans remained. six districts have been declared as Earth. No civilization can make Earth Day,” she maintained. and will continue to work for the He said it needed to be ascer- ern Express Highway, took out “One thing is clear that there has been an ODF — Nadia, South and North progress by ignoring our Mother. In recognition of the state gov- development of people.” She also tained if there was a conspiracy processions and raised slogans aggressive lending practice and at times lax- 24-Parganas, Hooghly, East Mid- She has raised us and she is our last ernment’s work in the agricultural quoted a few lines from her poetry behind Monday’s violence. against the government and the ity and at times lack of risk assessment as far as napore, Cooch Behar. The Pan- refuge. The Bengal government has sector, she said Bengal has received praising Mother Earth. Prakash Ambedkar, the administration. grant of loans is concerned. And, that is why a substantial number of these loans became NPAs. THEY WILL BE INTEREST-FREE DEBT INSTRUMENTS Many of them are not backed by adequate Ex-Army officer bludgeons TRIPLE TALAQ BILL: securities also,” he told the Upper House. MPOST Contours of electoral bonds Opposition presses Need to regain lost six to death in Haryana for Parliamentary trust in Kashmir PIYUSH OHRIE for political funding unveiled committee review N N VOHRA PALWAL: A 37-year-old former OUR CORRESPONDENT ing only to registered political NEW DELHI: The triple talaq Army officer working in the agri- parties, can be encashed only bill is expected to be tabled in culture department in the Haryana NEW DELHI: In a bid to clean through a designated bank the Rajya Sabha on Wednes- In today’s government on Tuesday bludgeoned up election funding, Finance account of the receiver. day, after it was passed by the six persons, including two women, Minister Arun Jaitley on Tues- The bonds will be avail- Lok Sabha, albeit with caveats, paper to death in just two hours in Hary- day came out with contours able for purchase for ten days last week. The contentious bill ana's Palwal district, police said. The of new 'electoral bonds' that each in January, April, July and had gathered mixed response ... accused has been arrested. can be bought from speci- October. The window would be from all parties when it was CITY Naresh Dhankar, a former fied branches of SBI and used Although called a bond, for 30 days in the year of the introduced in the lower house, Army Lieutenant who took volun- to donate money to political they will be interest-free debt general election. and it might face an uphill task 4 KILLED IN 4 SEPARATE MISHAPS 4 tary retirement on medical grounds parties.