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Defining India’s Poor India’s poverty declines to 29.8% in 2009-10

Posted on Monday, 19 March 2012 by Punjabi Articles

India may be a poor country but we all differ on what "poor" is. There was a furore last year when a per-capita income of Rs. 32 a day was considered "poor" — because Rs. 32 buys you nearly nothing these days. But that is hardly true if you consider the average size of a household is four, and that this means the per-household line for poverty is Rs. 128 per day. 



There is a more substantial Rs. 3,800 per month, a figure that most of the people, who were outraged at the Rs. 32 per day, will find their household help earns per month. (And in fact, around what the much-maligned rural employment guarantee scheme provides for one household member for 100 days a year)
ReadMore:http://in.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/economaniac/defining-india-poor-034720328.html

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Severe staff crunch major impediment

Posted on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 by Punjabi Articles


Over 5,000 posts of master and 3,500 posts of lecturer are lying vacant in government schools 

Staff crunch, lack of infrastructure and obsolete teaching material. This sums up the state of affairs in the education sector in the border district.

Elementary education is in dire straits with 1,030 posts of teachers and headmasters lying vacant. As against the sanctioned strength of 3,657, teachers and headmasters, only 2,627 teachers are available. In all, there are 866 elementary schools in the district. Of these, two are being run from rented buildings and six either from gurdwaras or village land, said District Education Officer (Elementary) Jaspal Singh.

However, there are a number of elementary schools in rural areas that are being run from dilapidated buildings and many do not have boundary walls. Insiders say there are several one-teacher schools.


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Postal staff housed in dilapidated dwellings

Posted on Wednesday, 11 January 2012 by Punjabi Articles

Pieces of plaster falling from ceiling, seepage discolouring the walls of rooms, broken windows or windows without glasses, doors having left the concrete bindings, loose electrical fittings and wiring, broken water pipeline causing seepage, trees (even peepal) growing on the external walls and more!


This is not a description of the remains of any old house. It is about the quarters where over 40 employees of a Central government department reside along with their family members, including kids.

Welcome to Bathinda’s Post and Telegraph (P&T) Colony where at least 46 postal employees along with their family member.s are leading lives, rather ‘miserable’ lives.

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Sunday or Monday, Election Office has no fun day

Posted on Monday, 2 January 2012 by Punjabi Articles

With assembly polls slated for January 30, it’s all work and no play for the mandarins on duty


To meet the increased workload ahead of the assembly elections scheduled on January 30, the election office here is working round- the-clock. Even Sundays are working days at the office, which is full of statistics on voters that are most sought after by the workers of the political parties.


"For the last many months, we have been coming on Sundays too. The work related to the election data has to be done very meticulously. Consequently, we have been working half days even on a Sunday without a break," said one of the officials not wishing to be named.

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SAD slogan on RCs

by Punjabi Articles


The Akali leadership seems to have found a way to circumvent model code of conduct. "Raj Nahi Sewa", the political slogan of the SAD, is being printed on the back of the vehicle registration certificates and driving licences issued by the District Transport Office (DTO) here.

The use of slogan is in clear violation of the directives of the Election Commission that has directed all the district authorities to remove similar messages from overhead water tanks, government vehicles and documents and public places.


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A TRIBUNE SERIES ON GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE: YOUTH IT’S A LONG QUEUE TO EDUCATION, JOBS

by Punjabi Articles

With little growth in private jobs, government employment remained the only option. Skills the youth possess are not what the industry needs, and private higher education is beyond the rural students’ reach. Result: rampant unemployment, drug addiction





India pins much hope on its young demographic profile, expecting to take on the world with cutting-edge human resource, but Punjab — once at the forefront of development in the country — has failed to capitalise this asset.

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Lalu Sleeping In Parliament Video 02 Sep 2011

Posted on Friday, 2 September 2011 by Gagan Masoun


See Lalu Sleeping in parliament on 02/Sep/2011... see this joker taking a nap... speaker had to ask others to wake him up... still very arrogant that he is supreme...

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MOST OF THE VILLAGES NOW HAVE PUBLIC TELEPHONES:

Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 by Punjabi Articles


 Under its plan to provide telecommunication connectivity to rural areas, the government said that it has provided village public telephones in most of the villages in the country.

"Under Bharat Nirman, villages not having access to public telephones were to be provided with Village Public Telephones (VPTs). 5,77,671 villages, out of a total of 5,93,601 villages in the country, have been provided with VPTs," the UPA government said in its annual report card for the year 2010-11.

The government also said that it has provided broadband connections to more than 97,500 villages under its target of connecting 2.5 lakh village panchayats by 2012. To enhance broadband connectivity in villages, the government said the Universal Service Obligation Fund proposes to launch a 'Wireless Broadband Scheme', wherein broadband coverage will be provided to about five lakh villages across the country.

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BADAL, AMARINDER LOCKED IN ‘POLITICAL’ BATTLE

Posted on Tuesday, 15 February 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that the Akalis did not have any personal issues against Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh. "Captain Amarinder takes a political war as a personal one," he said during media interaction after a programme at Panj Garaiyaan in the district.

"We always respect him and have no personal fight with him. He is only our party's competitor," said Chief Minister Badal, adding that he did not know why Captain Amrinder always attacked him and his family personally in bad and abusive language in political rallies and other functions which were not acceptable in this democratic country.

"In democracy, everyone has the right to say anything, and the Congress is a main opposition party in Punjab and has the right to raise questions against the ruling party, but not specific and particular personalities," said Badal. Talking on the issue of bifurcation of district Gurdaspur to make two new districts Pathankot and Batala, Badal simply said that these issues were raised by both BJP MLA Jagdish Raj Sahni and Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal and he had no information in this regard.

Badal chided Captain Amarinder Singh for deliberately drifting away and diverting the attention of the people from the core issue of development-the major poll plank in the forthcoming assembly elections due to his party's non performance and utter failure in the deliverance of clean and transparent administration to the people during his last tenure.

Badal categorically said: "Captain Amarinder had nothing to his credit to woo the voters except indulging in hollow slogans to malign us and to discredit our spectacular achievements for the overall development of the State."

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