Local body members score well in equivalency exams
The Hindu
67 persons emerged victorious in higher secondary exams
People’s representatives have scored big in the higher secondary equivalency examinations of the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority.
Sixty-seven persons, from panchayat member to municipal standing committee members, have emerged successful in the second year higher secondary equivalency examinations held in July this year. Of them 53 are women and 14 men.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists