Nisha Nambiar

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News City News pune News Labour department to crack down on agents fleecing construction workers in BOCW registration in Maharashtra Trending Pune: The labour department has said it would take strict action against agents and middlemen who illegally charge construction workers exorbitant fees for registration under the Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW) Welfare Board, despite the official fee being just Re 1.The move came following reports of rampant exploitation at tehsil offices...

2 days ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Nisha Nambiar

NewsCity Newspune NewsIt’s still the fields as toilets in Nandurbar’s tribal communities remain on paperTrendingNandurbar: Ranjana Sonawane, the first Aadhaar card holder, has got her Ladki Bahin dues that were held up over a mix-up in the bank last week, but she still has to battle the ordeal of not having a toilet facility and is forced to resort to open defecation.

3 days ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Nisha Nambiar

News City News pune News No action on high court order to expand state women’s commission nine years after directive Trending Pune: Bombay high court's order to the state govt to establish six regional branches of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women remains unimplemented nine years after it was issued.In Feb 2016, the high court took note of the state's assurance to set up a fully functional commission with a chairperson and six non-official members and directed that it be provided...

3 days ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Nisha Nambiar

Pune: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has resolved a nearly two-decade-old legacy issue involving similar Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers, weeding out approximately 2.6 lakh duplicate cards from the electoral database across the country.The exercise, which involved scrutinising records of over 99 crore electors across 10.5 lakh polling stations in all 4,123 assembly constituencies, has put to rest a problem that originated in 2005 due to the erroneous use of similar...

3 days ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Nisha Nambiar

News Electoral data from assembly poll sought Pune: The state election commission office has sought assembly poll electoral data from the state chief electoral office ahead of the upcoming local body polls.Senior officials said they have sent a request to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and will share the data with state election officials for the local poll.Local elections are likely to be conducted using data from the chief electoral office, which oversees both Lok Sabha and assembly...