-The Telegraph New Delhi: Leave of up to 90 days granted to women central government employees who have filed complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace could be in addition to leave they are otherwise entitled to, a circular issued yesterday suggests. Under Section 12, 1(D), of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, a woman employee has the option of taking leave up to 90...
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Toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission: Ready to use, but difficult to flush inhibitions -Amitabh Sinha
-The Indian Express As efforts are made to make India open defecation free by 2019, the biggest stumbling block is not the lack of enough toilets, but the difficulty in convincing people to start using them. New Delhi: Despite freshly-constructed functioning toilets in their homes, a group of old men in a village in Daniyawan block, about 30 km southeast of Patna city, continued to go out in the fields to defecate....
More »At Passport Office, Women Encounter Discriminatory, Humiliating Procedures -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Married women are required to submit a marriage certificate or affidavit at the time of passport creation or renewal, though these documents are not demanded of married men. New Delhi: Despite senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj being at the helm in the Ministry of External Affairs, women passport applicants continue to face discrimination and harassment at regional passport offices and seva kendras across the country. Women applying for passports are finding that...
More »Shimla to adopt odd-even formula
-The Times of India Shimla: To overcome the problem of traffic jam and decongest the roads of Shimla town, the district administration is thinking of introducing the odd -even formula for vehicles. With a rise in the number of vehicles, including those of tourists, the town is witnessing traffic jams, and the problem aggravates during the peak tourist season. To devise ways and means of decongesting roads in Shimla, and to regulate...
More »Appointment letters to be made mandatory soon -Somesh Jha
-The Hindu Centre may fix a format which would include details such as designation. The Centre will soon make it mandatory for companies with more than ten workers to give appointment letters to employees at the time of joining — a move that would benefit millions of workers in the informal sector. An absence of legislation on the issue makes it difficult for workers, including those who are employed informally or via contractors...
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