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A Village Accountant or Karanam (Andhra Pradesh), Patwari (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, West Bengal), Patowary (Assam), Talati (Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra), Lekhpal (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand) is a government role in rural areas of the Indian subcontinent. Introduced during the early 16th century, it was maintained by the British Raj.
Three years after the establishment of Employees Provident Fund Department, a special Act called "Karmachari Sanchaya Kosh (or Employee's Provident Fund) Act" was legislated in the year 1962. The same year the present Karmachari Sanchaya Kosh (KSK), or Employees Provident Fund (EPF) in English, was established under the act as an autonomous ...
National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) was set up in January 1997 as a non profit company under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India to empower the Manual Scavengers, Safai Karamcharis and their dependents to break away their traditional occupation, depressed social condition and poverty and leverage them to work their own way up the ...
Common Service Centers (CSCs) are a key component of the Digital India initiative launched by the Government of India. These centers aim to provide essential government and non-government services to citizens, particularly in rural and remote areas, through digital means. By acting as access points for various public utility services, social ...
The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) is currently a temporary non-statutory body [1] that investigates the conditions of Safai Karamcharis (waste collectors) in India and makes recommendations to the Government of India. NCSK was constituted 12 August 1994 as a statutory body for a three-year period under the NCSK ACT, 1993.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is an All India Financial Institution (AIFI) [4] and an apex Supervisory Body for overall supervision of Regional Rural Banks, State Cooperative Banks and District Central Cooperative Banks in India. [5] It was established under the NABARD Act 1981 passed by the Parliament of ...
The Bangladesh Employees Welfare Board was established on 29 January 2004. [2] In 2013, protestors from Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh damaged 53 buses of the board kept at its depot at Dilkusha. The government announced plans to build a 30-story highrise to generate income for the board. [3]
Bezwada Wilson (born 1966) is an Indian activist and one of the founders and National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), an Indian human rights organization that has been campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, the construction, operation and employment of manual scavengers which has been illegal in India since 1993. [1]