Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Castes
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had revamped the post-matric scholarship scheme earlier for students from the Scheduled Castes (SCs), including a new funding pattern of 60-40 for the Centre and States.
Equality in the Constitution
Equality enshrined in the Constitution is not mathematical equality and does not mean all citizens will be treated alike without any distinction. To this effect, the Constitution underlines two di
DEADLY SEWER
17 people have died this year till July while cleaning sewer and septic tank. Since 2017, 347 such death has been recorded across India due to manual septic tank cleaning.
Despite the 2013 law prohibiting the employment of manual scavengers, a government survey identified 54,130 people engaged in this job as of July 2019.
Tamil Nadu had registered 206 deaths of manual scavengers who were cleaning sewer and septic tanks between 1993 and July 2019, the highest among all t