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Care centres operating on Sundays and public holidays remain open ***************************************************************** Attention duty announcers, radio and TV stations:        Please broadcast the following special announcement immediately, and repeat it at frequent intervals:        “The Social Welfare Department announces that while the Red Rainstorm Warning Signal has been issued, centres providing after school care programmes and elderly services centres, which normally operate on Sundays and public holidays, will remain open during their normal operating hours. However, if necessary, members of the public can contact the centres to make arrangements for the safe return home of their children and family ... Read more

The all-India retail price of tomato has registered a 29% decline over last month as market arrivals improved with the onset of monsoon rains. The retail price of onion is also largely under control at 9% below last year level. The government has built up a reserve stock of 2.50 lakh tons of onion in current year which is the highest ever onion buffer stock procured. The procurement for the buffer has helped in preventing mandi price of onion from crashing this year despite a record production of 317.03 lakh tons reported by Department of ... Read more

The Government has recently announced a new incentive scheme for States that could achieve their targets and become eligible for incremental borrowing. This was stated by Union Minister of State for Finance Shri Pankaj Chaudhary in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.            Giving more details, the Minister stated that out of the net borrowing ceiling (NBC) of  4% of GSDP for the States for 2021-  22, 0.50 percent of GSDP was earmarked for incremental capital expenditure to be incurred by the States during 2021-22. The target for incremental capital expenditure for each ... Read more