-The Times of India JAIPUR: The officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI) at Chanderia in Chittorgarh are under scanner for 'watering' food grain sacks to increase their weight and selling the 'excess' in the black market. The incident came to light after a home guard at a godown shot a video of supervisors watering the grains. The video was shot on September 27. The home guard filed a complaint with the...
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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Law Minister, interviewed by Nistula Hebbar & Krishnadas Rajagopal (The Hindu)
-The Hindu Framers of the Constitution were clear that we must move to a common personal law, the Union Law Minister says. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the Centre’s affidavit on the triple talaq issue, which is being heard in the Supreme Court, was based on the principles of assuring gender justice, gender equality and dignity. The Minister stressed that the right to freedom of religion did not enjoin...
More »Time to decongest our prisons
-The Hindu The overcrowding of prisons in the country is a long-standing problem that is seldom addressed effectively. Even though the Supreme Court has, from time to time, raised the issue of prison reforms in general, and that of overcrowding in particular, measures to decongest jails have been sporadic and half-hearted. The issue is once again in the news, with the Supreme Court bemoaning that prisons in Delhi and nine States...
More »Towards a kerosene-free India -Abhishek Jain
-The Hindu With clean energy access a high priority for India, we must look beyond kerosene, ensuring alternatives After the success of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)/cooking gas, the government has now decided to launch DBT for kerosene (DBTK), starting with pilots in the State of Jharkhand. While the move is well-intentioned, it may not be simple to implement at scale, and may even fail to eliminate the...
More »Crop Burning: Punjab and Haryana's killer fields -Polash Mukerjee
-Down to Earth Punjab produces about 19-20 million tonnes of paddy straw and about 85-90 per cent of this paddy straw is burnt in the field Burning of agricultural biomass residue, or Crop Residue Burning (CRB) has been identified as a major health hazard. In addition to causing exposure to extremely high levels of Particulate Matter concentration to people in the immediate vicinity, it is also a major regional source of...
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