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The government of Uttar Pradesh has decided to extend benefits from 17 schemes to MGNREGA workers and families who are registered with the Ministry of Labor. According to reports, workers will receive benefits such as boarding, medical facilities and housing assistance, among others.

According to reports, the rural development department has set a target of registering 20 lakh workers working under MGNREGA with the labor department by the end of the current fiscal year.

Yogesh Kumar, MGNREGA Additional Commissioner, said nearly 1.4 crore people worked this year. Kumar said Uttar Pradesh will become a state with maximum employment, as it will soon register more than two million workers for MGNREGA.

“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s initiative to create jobs within MGNREGA is now bearing fruit,” he said.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a social security measure which aims to guarantee the “right to work”. This law was adopted in September 2005 under the government of the UPA.

Meanwhile, a PTI report said demand for work under MGNREGA more than doubled this fiscal year due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

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By JAMES KARIUKI
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• The pension sector regulator said mortgage lending regulations were being revised to allow plan members to use a slice of savings to buy homes.
• Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) chief executive Nzomo Mutuku said retirement savers would benefit once the guidelines are released.

The pension sector regulator said mortgage lending regulations were being revised to allow plan members to use a slice of savings to buy homes.

Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) chief executive Nzomo Mutuku said retirement savers would benefit once the guidelines are released.

“The modification of the RBA (mortgage loan) regulation is underway and will inform stakeholders once Treasury CS Ukur Yatani releases the amendment,” said the RBA boss.

President Uhuru recently approved the amended Article 38 of the Retirement Benefits Act (1997) allowing retirees to use part of the retirement benefits to purchase residential homes.

Mutuku welcomed the move, saying it would increase home ownership where savers can own a home during their working life.

While the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has vouched for the release of up to 60% of individual savings for the purchase of a home, RBA regulations should clarify the air at- above the authorized limit and define the conditions for access to retirement savings.

Meanwhile, pension players have called for caution in allowing workers to access savings before retirement.

Association of Retirement Benefit Schemes president Simon Nyakundi said it risks leaving many penniless and unable to meet daily expenses.

“No saver should be allowed to wipe out all their savings because in retirement at age 60, they need an income replacement rate equivalent to about 70% of their last income available for personal use over the next 20 years or more. . The pension is intended for the dignity and comfort of the elderly, ”he said.

TWO hotels and a nursing home in Bacolod City were closed by the municipal government on Friday, December 29 for operating without an operating license.

The City Legal Office (CLO), along with the Permits and Licensing Division and other agencies, have padlocked the Westown Hotel on Corner Luzuiaga-San Juan Streets, the Bacolod Pension Plaza on Cuadra Street, Barangay 21 and the Rainbow Retirement Home on Mabini Street, Bacolod Town.

The city’s legal office, Joselito Bayatan, said it has inspected various establishments in the city that deal with food and accommodation, including hotels.

He said he had verified the strict observance by the hotels of the safety of their clients and clients.

“Our focus is on the security compliance of their clients and clients which was required by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the Office of the Building Official (OBO),” he added.

The Permits and Licenses Division and BFP have recommended the closure of these commercial establishments for having committed certain offenses.

“We have ordered the closure of these business establishments and we have issued security measures for their corrections,” Bayatan said.

He said business establishments would have to comply with the requirements first, so that they can operate again.

“This is an ongoing way of doing it and after that we will go to the pensions to inspect their safety compliance,” he added.

Both business establishments violated Article 67 of Municipal Ordinance 565 or the revised tax code of the city of Bacolod.

On November 26, the fire destroyed the Java Pension House, a former Bascon hotel, where six people, including the owner of the retirement home and members of his family, were killed.

THE CITY OF BACOLOD: Two of the three suspects, who allegedly started a fire at the Java nursing home along Gonzaga Street in Bacolod town last Tuesday, were arrested in joint operations by the town’s Police Station 1 (PS1) and the Murcia municipal police station.

Police identified the two suspects as Rodolfo Inson Jr., from Bacolod City and Venancio Valeriano, a resident of Barangay Amayco, in the city of Murcia.

The third suspect, meanwhile, has yet to be identified by police, although an operation has been launched by police at the time of publication.

Major Jovil Sedel, commander of PS1, said he managed to identify the suspects after interviewing several witnesses, who then positively identified Valeriano through the thug galleries at the station.

The police commander added that Valeriano had a history of theft and gambling in both the PS1 police and the Murcia police, while Inson also had a previous case of theft at the police station. 6.

Sedel said Inson’s theft cases occurred while he was still the PS6 commander.

He immediately coordinated with Murcia’s municipal police station to locate Valeriano, as the suspect allegedly jumped from place to place.

The initial operation to capture Valeriano was also difficult as the barangay (village) where he lives was in the mountainous part of town.

Valeriano was finally arrested on Saturday, alongside Inson who was arrested in Bacolod City.

The suspects were then brought to PS1, where they were interviewed by police and arson investigators from the Bureau of Fire Protection.

Sedel said the suspects said they were trying to steal a motorcycle helmet by using a lighter and burning the strap in order to remove it.

The suspects then brought the helmet to the Burgos public market area where they sold it for P150.

They said they were unaware that their action caused the motorcycle to set on fire and only found out when they heard an explosion.

“The suspects then had breakfast and even returned to the crime scene later,” Sedel said.

He added that they would file arson charges today with charges of multiple homicides and multiple physical injuries against the suspects.

At dawn on Tuesday, the Java Pension House was devastated by a fire, killing property owner Christopher Java, her 12-year-old son Miguel and mother Magdalena, 70, and housekeeper Ronalyn Dacallo, 44. Years.

Arnold Felomino, the receptionist of the retirement home, was also killed in the fire; and Arniel Bajenting, a hardware salesman.

The fire is the worst in Bacolod this year, with damage estimated at 8 million pula.

SIX people, including a minor, were killed in a fire that hit the Java retirement home in Gonzaga-Locsin streets in Bacolod on Tuesday morning, November 26.

The victims have been identified as Christopher Java, the owner of the retirement home; Miguel, the 12 year old son of Java; Magdalena, the mother of Java; and Analyn Dacallo, Miguel’s nanny.

Two more deaths remain unidentified, while four other people, including an Australian national, were injured and taken to hospital.

The city’s fire marshal, Publio Plotena, said he answered a call around 4:37 a.m. indicating that the Java Pension House, a former Bascon hotel, was on fire.

He said the fire that reached the highest alarm started on the ground floor and destroyed the five-story building.

One of the unidentified dead was found along the counter of the retirement home, while the other was found in the rooftop terrace.

Plotena said the owner of the retirement home and his family members were trapped in their rooms on the second floor and could have died of suffocation.

He said they were still conducting a further investigation to determine the cause of the fire, as they could not yet determine the total number of guests at the nursing home during the incident.

Some witnesses, who declined to be named, said that prior to the incident, three unidentified men were seen on the ground floor of the retirement home. One of them took a helmet and burned it in the area.

“This is just an allegation and we will fully investigate this assertion. But for now, we cannot yet determine the cause of the fire, ”Plotena said.

He said they would check the closed circuit television (CCTV) camera in the area.

Plotena added that the blaze, which damaged approximately 8 million pesos of properties, was extinguished around 9:20 a.m.

The Fire Protection Office (BFP) will also verify the retirement home’s compliance with fire safety, including its establishment permit.

Fire hits Java Pension House (formerly Bascon Hotel) in Gonzaga-Locsin streets in Bacolod City. Photo by Levi Trio

Updated at 12:39 am on November 27, 2019

BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines – Residents here woke up to the sad news that six people, including a 12-year-old boy, have died in a five-hour fire that struck a nursing home before dawn Tuesday.

The six people may have died of suffocation as the fire raged for about five hours inside the Java nursing home on Gonzaga and Lacson streets, Bacolod fire chief Publio Ploteña said. .

Some guests, including strangers, escaped by descending from the windows and roof of the five-story building using a ladder climbed by firefighters. An Australian was among the injured.

The victims included Christopher Java, whose family owned the retirement home; her son Miguel, 12, her mother Magdalena Java and the boy’s babysitter, Ronalyn Dacilio.

The other two were not identified at the time of going to press.

Firefighters rescued Australian Paul Cadognago, 75, from his room. Cadognago was taken to a city hospital to treat his injuries.

Japanese tourist Katsumi Suzuki, 67, and three other people were pulled by firefighters from a window on the fourth floor.

Suzuki, a tourist in the city for a month now, said he woke up smelling smoke. Other guests descended a ladder from the roof as black smoke rose.

Bascon Hotel

The fire started at 4:37 a.m. on the ground floor and spread to the other floors. Investigators have yet to determine the cause and assess the damage.

The 55-year-old building was once home to the famous Bascon Hotel, which hosted glamorous parties and had the country’s vice-presidents, senators and foreign ambassadors among its guests, until its owners rented it out to the Java family.

Oscar “Dodong” Bascon, who ran the hotel for 40 years from the mid-1960s, said it broke his heart to see the nursing home engulfed in flames.

Then Governor Valeriano Gatuslao constructed the building in 1964. The following year the Bascon Hotel opened.

Bascon and his wife Carminia are leaving the hotel business after 40 years. Carminia’s niece, Ann Abello, then rented the building to Don Bagatsing, who then sublet it to the Java family.

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The official residential housing that is supposed to be offered to former President John Agyekum Kufuor as part of his retirement program is still pending eight years after he left office in January 2009, said Frank Agyekum, spokesperson. word of the former president.

Two houses in Trasacco in Accra that were given to former presidents John Kufuor and John Rawlings during the time of President JEA Mills were rejected by the two former presidents on the grounds that they had not been consulted before the buildings were constructed for their contributions and preferences as personalized requests. .

Since then, apart from an office which was given to Mr. Kufuor in Cantonments in Accra, that of his official residential accommodation as stipulated by the constitution remains on hold, Mr. Frank Agyekum said in an interview with Asempa FM on Monday after- midday.

As per the Presidential Committee’s report on emoluments, when President Kufuor stepped down in 2009, he indicated that he preferred that one bungalow at Cantonments in Accra be used as an office and another as a residence, but this request was was rejected by the administration of then President JEA Mills. .

After being resentfully evicted from the public establishment on the initiative of a group of young men, Mr. Kufuor was then offered another bungalow in Cantonments which would serve as his office.

He has since operated from there and used his home at Airport West as his official residence.

According to Mr. Agyekum, in 2001, following the Greenstreet presidential committee report on emoluments, former President Rawlings, for example, was allowed to make a preference for his residential accommodation and office and he chose two bungalows in Ridge.

Likewise, he believes that Mr Kufuor should have been allowed to make a preference after the Chinery Hesse report in 2009.

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Sixteen men are arrested by officers from the Bohol National Bureau of Investigation in connection with a selling and selling operation early Saturday morning in the town of Tagbilaran. LEO UDTOHAN / VISAYAS INVESTIGATOR

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol – Officers from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) -Bohol on Saturday arrested 16 suspected drug sellers and consumers and seized 50,000 P of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) during a raid on a house in retreat here.

NBI-Bohol supervisor lawyer Arcelito Albao said they were monitoring Randy Roble Rama, 26, a resident of Calape town, in his illegal drug trade.

He said Rama was a notorious drug dealer in the city who peddled drugs in rented rooms in nursing homes, hostels and hotels.
Albao said Rama was selling drugs in the city around 11 p.m. Friday.

After midnight, the suspect went to a retirement home on Calceta Street in Barangay (village) Cogon and rented room 20 where men came to buy shabu.
When the raid team knocked on his room, Rama opened the door thinking he was being visited by a buyer.

Rama was reportedly caught leading a potty session and packing up the shabu when NBI agents arrived. Fifteen other people, including a civil servant, were also arrested.

A large sachet and eight small strips of shabu valued at P 50,000 and assorted drug paraphernalia were recovered from his possession.

Albao said they were preparing a dangerous drug law violation complaint against the suspects. CDG

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