-The Hindu While sanitation schemes in India date back to the British Raj, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) is the latest and by far most ambitious iteration. Launched by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the end of 2014, the Rs.9,000-crore scheme aims to achieve an Open Defecation-Free (ODF) India by constructing 12 million rural household toilets across the country before October 2, 2019 — to coincide with Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday. But...
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Aadhaar goof-up merges birthdays
-PTI Allahabad: Guests in Kanjasa may not have a cakewalk in selecting which birthday party to attend on January 1. One in five persons will be blowing out candles the same day, thanks to a technical goof-up that has caused their new Aadhaar cards to mention January 1 as their official Date of Birth. Flooded with complaints from residents of the village near Allahabad that their cards do not mention the actual dates...
More »How Dalit lands were stolen -Ilangovan Rajasekaran
-Frontline.in The British government, on the basis of an 1891 report on the subhuman living conditions of “Pariahs” by James H.A. Tremenheere, Acting Collector of Chengleput, assigned 12 lakh acres of land for distribution to the “depressed classes” of the Madras Presidency to empower them socially and economically. But more than 100 years later, much of this land is in the possession of non-Dalits, and the struggle to reclaim them has...
More »Aadhar to be made mandatory for filing I-T return, applying for PAN card
-The Times of India/ PTI NEW DELHI: The government has proposed to make Aadhaar card mandatory for filing income tax return and also applying for permanent account number (PAN). The new proposal has been made through an amendment to the Finance Bill. Recently, the I-T department had announced a mobile app for paying taxes and tracking of refunds. It had also said it was considering issuing PANs on real time basis using Aadhaar...
More »And children pay the price -Krishna Kumar
-The Indian Express CBSE’s decision to make Class X board exam compulsory upturns a modest reform of school education Once upon a time, when India was a colony, the matriculation exam marked the end of “high” school education. It served as the gateway for higher education at a college. The Latin root of the verb ‘to matriculate’ means getting enlisted in a college. Not everybody could aspire for higher education, but even...
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