The ministry of personnel has shown a surprising lack of alacrity in prosecuting errant babus In August last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was keynote speaker at the annual meeting of India’s premier anti-corruption agency, the CBI. There, addressing officers of the agency and state vigilance bureaus, he made a telling remark, “Our anti-corruption agencies must make the cost of corruption unacceptably high for those indulging in this evil practice.” The prime...
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पंचायतों की जमीन जेडीए के खाते में
जयपुर। एक तहसीलदार की कारस्तानी की वजह से जमवारामगढ़ तहसील के 10 ग्राम पंचायतों के आबादी की कई सौ बीघे से ज्यादा जमीन जेडीए के खाते में चढ़ गई। नतीजा, ग्राम पंचायतों ने इन जमीनों के पट्टे देने से हाथ खींच लिया और वास्तविक मालिकाना हक न होने की वजह से जेडीए भी इन जमीनों के पट्टे देने से बच रहा है। इसके चलते सैकड़ों ग्रामीण ग्राम पंचायतों और जेडीए अधिकारियों के बीच फुटबॉल बने...
More »Shame of Bhopal, Real Test at Copenhagen
The world’s biggest industrial disaster took place in Bhopal on December 3, 1984 taking a toll of 20,000 lives and affecting 5.69 lakh people. The twentyfifth anniversary of that massive mishap at the Union Carbide plant in the city is being observed across the country today. That disaster is a crying shame for all our citizens. Why? For three reasons. First, the real culprit behind the mishap, the Union Carbide management,...
More »The great Bhopal whitewash by Sunil Jain
Worthies such as Ratan Tata who have been lobbying the government to go easy on Union Carbide Corporation (http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/5_27.pdf) would do well to read Carbide’s useful FAQs on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, which claimed over 10,000 lives. Worse, over 5 lakh humans, including those born after the disaster, are still suffering the consequences of the gas leak. Even now, Carbide refuses to accept any kind of...
More »The Ground Beneath Our Feet by Tripti Lahiri
CITIES MAKE one simple promise to newcomers: Sacrifice yourself to me and your children shall prosper. This promise drew Ahmed Raza, a small-time wrestler from an Uttar Pradesh village and millions like him to the capital of newly-independent India. Raza kept his part of the bargain, yet half a century later, his daughter was pushed out of the city her father helped build, the only home she has known. “I...
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