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Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 16: The Aam Aadmi Party led government in Punjab has announced 300 units of free power to every Punjab home.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today announced 300 units of free electricity each month for every household in the state from July 1.
Mann said Scheduled Castes, backward castes, below-poverty-line households and freedom fighters currently getting free 200 units each month will now get 300 units of electricity monthly.
Just within a month after coming into power, AAP has taken major decisions like regularizing daily wagers, restricting private schools from hiking the fees and no announcing 300 units of free power in every Punjab home.
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| | | | Don’t give lollipops, regularize us: Daily wagers to Govt | | ‘Will gherao Raj Bhawan on Monday, go on indefinite strike after Ramadan’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 16: Daily wagers have decided to gherao Raj Bhawan here on April 18 (Monday).
Talking to the reporters here, representatives of daily wagers said, “Our main demand is that all the daily wagers should be regularized and the government should stop giving lollipops to us.”
They said, “The government has decided to give another lollipop to raise our wages to Rs 377/ per day, but we are demanding implementation of the Minimum Wages Act. And Rs 377/ per day is too less.”
The representatives urged the daily wagers to assemble outside Raj Bhawan to drive home our point. “Our next step will be to go on a strike. As soon as the month of Ramadan will end we will go ... | |
| | | | Safai Karamcharis hold protest, seek regularization of services | | | 
EARLY TIMES REPROT
JAMMU, Apr 16: Several sanitation workers in Jammu were taken into custody on Saturday. They had protested against the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) in support of their demands including regularization of services here. Officials said that sanitation workers, including women, gathered near the Press Club of Jammu under the banner of Civil Safai Karamcharis Union and tried to march towards the main road, following which the police acted.
More than 12 Safai Karamcha... | |
| | | | JMC workers demand salary, get batons | | | 
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 16: Ruckus broke out near the Press Club here after Jammu & Kashmir Police personnel went on a rampage and beat up the workers of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) who were protesting in support of their demands.
This morning a group of workers of the JMC assembled near the Press Club and started protesting against the Jammu & Kashmir administration. The JMC workers were demanding release of salary that according to them is pending for a long time now.
The p... | |
| | | | Over 20.6 cr Covid vaccines lying unused with states, UTs: Centre | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 16: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Saturday, informed that more than 20.60 crore balance and unutilized coronavirus vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories (UTs).
According to the ministry, more than 192.27 crores (1,92,27,23,625) vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far through the Government of India (free of cost channel) and through the direct state procurement category.
More than 20.60 Crore (20,60,37,336) balance and unutilized Covid Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered, said the ministry.
As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, the Government of India ha... | |
| | | | India can’t afford to remain stagnant at this juncture: PM Modi | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 16: India cannot afford to remain stagnant at this juncture and it has to become self-reliant, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.
He was speaking after unveiling a 108-feet tall statue of Lord Hanuman in Gujarat’s Morbi via video link on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti. “India cannot afford to remain stagnant today…We cannot continue to remain where we are.
The global situation is such that the entire world is thinking on how to become ‘aatmanirbhar’,” Modi said.
“I would request the saints of the country to teach people to buy local products only. Vocal for local is the in thing. In our homes, we should only use things made by our people. Imag... | |
| | | | No electricity irks Kahara-Doda residents | | | 
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 16: Residents of Kahara village in Doda district today protested outside the office of Deputy Commissioner Doda against the non-availability of electricity in their village. The residents blamed the successive governments for the denial of electricity to the particular village.
The residents while giving vent to their anger said that ‘Digital India’ has no meaning and significance for them since they have been denied of a basic facility like electricity. They... | |
| | | | Nepotism in selecting PMAY beneficiaries | | |  Ashwani Sharma
Early times report
Jammu, Apr 15: Making mockery of PM Modi’s repeated assurances of empowering local bodies the concerned authorities have dropped about 8 names of needy people for housing assistance under popular Pradhan Mandti Awas Yogna (PMAY) scheme.
The case was of Panchayat parla , village biaspur parla in Suchetgarh Constituency of R.S pura at Indo-Pak international border wherein 11 Panches submitted 25 name 25 names of persons who are in dire need of dwellin... | |
| | | | CMIE figures puncture J&K Govt’s employment claims | | Unemployment rate in UT touches 25%, 2nd highest in India | | | EARLY TIMES Report
Jammu, Apr 16: The tall claims of the government to address unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir have fallen as the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) figures have revealed that the unemployment rate in the Union Territory has touched 25 percent for the month of March, despite the national unemployment rate witnessing a decline.
The unemployment rate in J&K, according to the CMIE, is higher than the national level unemployment rate of 7.6 percent recorded across the country.
The unemployment rates are produced by CMIE using its Consumer Pyramids Household Survey machinery. It’s in place to mention here that the J&K Government has been claiming that numerous ste... | |
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