| HP rationalises timber policy | 15-OCT-09 |
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| Deodar and other giant pine trees, which were being supplied under an archaic law for Rs 2 per tree to villagers in Himachal Pradesh, will now be distributed for at least 30 per cent of the market rate of Rs 1 lakh per tree, according to a new law. |
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| Haryana provides health cover to 1.29 million BPL families | 20-JUL-09 |
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| Haryana has become the first state in the country to achieve the distinction of extending health insurance cover to all the 1.29 million below-poverty-line (BPL) families dotting the length and breadth of the state, under the Rashhtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). |
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| Poor monsoon may dampen UPA's food security plan: report | 22-JUN-09 |
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| Falling water reservoir levels coupled with poor monsoon will not only impact India's economic growth adversely but UPA's ambitious plan to guarantee food security to poor families will also be hit, global financial major Citi said. |
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| Govt unlikely to relax export ban on sugar, wheat: Pawar | 26-MAY-09 |
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| In spite of having two successive years of record procurement in wheat and rice (non-basmati), the government is in no mood to relax the export ban on both these commodities. Instead, it plans to use the grain stocks to fulfil the promise of subsidised grain to the poor made by the Congress in its election manifesto. The Congress had promised wheat and rice at Rs 3 a kg to BPL families. |
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| BJP promises rice at Re 1 per kg to BPL families | 31-MAR-09 |
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| To woo the poor in the rural areas, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today promised to provide rice at Re 1 only to the families living below poverty line (BPL). It also promised to supply dal at Rs 5 per kg and salt, free to these families if the party is voted to power in the state in the coming assembly polls. |
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| FM launches medical scheme for BPL families | 08-SEP-08 |
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| Finance Minister P Chidambaram inaugurated the Universal Arogya Medical Insurance Scheme, saying the scheme would reach all citizens below poverty line (BPL) in the country in a phased |
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| CFL at normal bulb prices for BPL families | 27-JUN-07 |
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| The government would make energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) available at the cost of normal bulbs for Below the Poverty Line (BPL) households by the end of next month, a Bureau of |
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| J&K govt distributes Rs 14.90 lakh to BPL families | 17-MAY-06 |
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| Minister for Agriculture Abdul Aziz Zargar distributed cheques worth Rs 12 lakh among 87 families at Damhal Hanji Pora in Anantnag, while MLA Ghulam Nabi Bhat distributed cheques amounting to Rs 2.90 |
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| Health cover for more BPL families soon | 24-APR-06 |
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| Major schemes for expanding the scope of health insurance to the below poverty line families are on the anvil, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi said here today.
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