क्या छत्तीसगढ़ में विधि व्यवस्था और सांविधानिक संरचना टूट चुकी है। भले ही सूबे की सरकार इससे इनकार करे मगर देश के कुछ सबसे ज्यादा प्रतिष्ठित नागरिक संगठन कम से कम ऐसा ही मानते हैं। कई नागरिक संगठनों ने सरकारी अधिकारियों, अदालत और यहां तक की प्रधानमंत्री को भी ऑपरेशन ग्रीनहंट के तहत हो रही उस पुलिसिया ज्यादती के बारे में लिखा है जिसे सूबे की पुलिस और अर्द्धसैनिक बल...

The performance of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which will form the core of the Right to Education Act, has been satisfactory in terms of ainfrastructure though a lot needs to be done as far as quality improvement — teachers’ appointment, their in-service training etc — is concerned. In what could further boost the flagship programme, sources said, the Finance Commission has made a provision of more than Rs 20,000 crore for...

The BJP has wrenched power in “yet another state”. The Congress is looking at long-term gains by refusing to back Shibu Soren. But the Jharkhand verdict has also opened the eyes of the two mainline parties to a disturbing realisation: their failure to “nurture” tribal leaders. “Both of us stand exposed as out-and-out upper caste parties who have failed to create, and worse, nurture tribal leadership. The mandate’s message is the...

Tribals angry with activists fighting for human rights of Naxals while ignoring poor ‘adivasis’ threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at Magsaysay award winner Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey as they reached Dantewada town in chhattisgarh on Wednesday. While Medha, being a woman, did not face much humiliation, her companion Pandey was pulled down from the motorcycle and given a hiding. He was pushed around and asked why the activists had...

The demand for a separate state of Telangana has brought into focus the economic performance of small states. Data brought out by the Central Statistical Organisation do show that most of the reorganised states tend to grow faster post-reorganisation and smaller states such as Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and chhattisgarh have grown faster after achieving state-hood than before, and at a rate higher than the average for the country. Moreover, we find...