-The Indian Express Claims that Aadhaar has increased the demand and allocations of NREGA work rest on several faulty assumptions. Two newspaper ARTicles in the Times of India and Financial Express claimed that Aadhaar linking boosts MGNREGA and has cut wage payment delays. Both ARTicles were based on a working paper, “A Friend Indeed”, by members of the Digital Identity Research Initiative (DIRI) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. The ISB...
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Failing Its Purpose -Anil Swarup
-The Indian Express RTE Act has not ensured delivery of quality education We have a belief that enacting a legislation is a panacea for all ills. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (popularly known as RTE Act) was born out of this mindset. This approach raises a few questions. Why should the executive arm of the government require a law to do something which it is authorised...
More »Journalists say Facebook is 'censoring' political content in India ahead of 2019 elections -Kanishk Karan
-Scroll.inSince August, media reports have highlighted suspension of accounts, marking of news stories as spam by Facebook.With the general elections in India due early in 2019, greater attention is being paid to the digital space, which many believe will have a deep impact on the polls. Much of this attention is focused on Facebook, which was heavily criticised for its conduct in the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential...
More »In drought-hit Maharashtra, a fourth of its villages are staring at a water crisis by April
-Scroll.inThe state is facing its worst groundwater depletion since 2015, says the Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency.A quARTer of Maharashtra?s villages ? numbering around 11,500 ? are likely to face water shortages by April 2019, according to data released by the state?s Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency. And 2,941 villages are already facing this deficit.The Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency releases a seasonal water shortage outlook for Maharashtra every October....
More »If you are a scribe, grab this unique opportunity: Apply for NFI Media Awards Programme 2019 (last date extended till 10th Jan, '19)
The National Foundation for India invites applications for its National Media Awards Programme, 2019. The award is for young, mid-career journalists and will allow them to publish and research ARTicles /photo-essays on issues of national concern, which though important, do not receive adequate media attention. The award supports the pursuit of in-depth, creative field research on these concerns and writing about them with adequate evidence. Under the programme, ten to twelve...
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