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Proxy voting for NRIs cleared by the Union Cabinet

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Proxy voting for NRIs cleared by the Union Cabinet

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NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a proposal to extend proxy voting to overseas Indians by amending electoral laws, a senior government functionary said.

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The Union Cabinet amended electoral laws to clear a proposal to extend proxy voting to overseas Indians.

As of now, the option of proxy was only available to service personnel.

Till now, NRIs were free to cast their votes in constituencies where they are registered.

For overseas Indians, the Representation of the People Act needs to be amended to include proxy voting as other means to cast their votes.

While NRIs and overseas Indians are free to cast their votes in constituencies where they are registered, according to the proposal, they would also be allowed to use the option of proxy, which as of now is only available to service personnel.

An expert committee in the Election Commission working on the issue had, in 2015, forwarded the legal framework to the law ministry to amend electoral laws to allow overseas Indians use proxy voting.

Data shows that only 10,000 to 12,000 NRIs have voted because they do not want to spend foreign currency to come to India and exercise their franchise.

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Proxy voting for NRIs cleared by the Union Cabinet

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The Union Cabinet amended electoral laws to clear a proposal to extend proxy voting to overseas Indians. As of now, the option of proxy was only available to service personnel. Till now, NRIs were free to cast their votes in constituencies where they are registered.

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Seventh Pay Commission : Govt Employees to Get Revised Allowances Today, seventh CPC For Teachers Soon

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Seventh Pay Commission : Govt Employees to Get Revised Allowances Today, seventh CPC For Teachers Soon

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The government provided a warning on execution of higher recompenses under the seventh Pay Commission on July 7.

Focal government workers will get their overhauled pay and recompenses, under the seventh Pay Commission (seventh CPC), today. Informing the higher remittances, according to the suggestions of the seventh Pay Commission, the legislature asked focal services and office to guarantee the changed rates of stipends are paid with July compensation. In the mean time, the legislature will soon declare seventh Pay Commission for instructors in the nation. The administration likewise discharged the rules for obsession of pay of competitors working in the general population division endeavors.

The government provided a warning on usage of higher stipends under the seventh Pay Commission on July 7. This came following a year when the legislature affirmed seventh Pay Commission suggestions on pay climb. The rundown of recompenses, suggested by the seventh Pay Commission, has 197 stipends, which incorporate uncommon ones like Cycle Allowances, Toilet Soap Allowance, Briefcase Allowance and Secret Allowance.

Under the seventh Pay commission, there is lessening in the current HRA rates to 24 for every penny for X, 16 for each penny for Y and 8 for each penny for Z class urban communities. As the HRA at the decreased rates may not be adequate for representatives falling in the lower pay section, it has been chosen that HRA should not be not as much as Rs 5,400, Rs 3,600 and Rs 1,800 for X, Y and Z classification of urban communities individually. This floor rate has been figured at the rate of 30 for every penny, 20 for each penny and 10 for each penny of the base pay of Rs 18,000.

Around 48 lakh focal government workers will now get the overhauled stipends from July compensation according to the suggestions of the seventh Pay Commission. The Finance Ministry has likewise distributed the rundown of remittances, prescribed by the seventh Pay Commission.
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Talking at the National Convention on Higher Education Perspectives in India, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the legislature will soon declare seventh Pay Commission for educators. The clergyman likewise guaranteed to acquire straightforwardness educators' arrangement in the colleges, particularly in Delhi University, inside a year.

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Seventh Pay Commission : Govt Employees Get Revised Allowances , seventh CPC For Teachers Soon.

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Focal government workers will get their overhauled pay and recompenses, under the seventh Pay Commission (seventh CPC), today. Informing the higher remittances, according to the suggestions of the seventh Pay Commission, the legislature asked focal services and office to guarantee the changed rates of stipends are paid with July compensation.

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Controversy over Vande Mataram in Maharashtra

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Controversy over Vande Mataram in Maharashtra

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Following the Madras HC managing on Vande Mataram, a BJP MLA has required its execution in Maharashtra also.

The patriotism discuss is to bite Maharashtra legislative issues. The Madras High Court managing on Vande Mataram has made swells in Maharashtra. While a BJP pioneer has requested to actualize it in Maharashtra too, Muslim pioneers have by and by disliked the thought.

Following the Madras HC governing on Vande Mataram, a BJP MLA has required its usage in Maharashtra too.

"It's a national tune. We might want to tow the line in our state also. I will meet the CM and demand him to execute Vande Mataram in Maharashtra also," requested BJP MLA Raj Purohit. The BJP MLA likewise educated that if the need be he will bring the issue up in the Assembly too.

However, the recommendation was in for a solid resistance by pioneers from the AIMIM and Samajwadi Party.

MIM MLA Waaris Pathan was more vocal in his restriction. "My religion, my Constitution and my law doesn't request that I say it. Regardless of the possibility that somebody puts a blade on my throat I won't state it," Pathan said.

Samajwadi Party pioneer and MLA Abu Asim Azmi too was similarly vociferous. "A genuine Muslim will never say Vande Mataram. You can't drive us. On the off chance that you need, drive us out of the nation, shoot us. A genuine Muslim won't sing Vande Mataram," Azmi said.

With an open deliberation seething on patriotism, the Shiv Sena was not lingering behind.

Shiv Sena pioneer and Transport Minister Diwakar Raote added fuel to flame. "The ones who contradict Vande Mataram are just remaining in this nation however their heart is in Pakistan. No compelling reason to drive them out, they themselves ought to go to Pakistan," Raote said.

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Controversy over Vande Mataram in Maharashtra again - dailydoss

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The patriotism discuss is to bite Maharashtra legislative issues. The Madras High Court managing on Vande Mataram has made swells in Maharashtra. While a BJP pioneer has requested to actualize it in Maharashtra too, Muslim pioneers have by and by disliked the thought.