For implementing food security Act Constitution of a Sate Food Security Mission and district-level grievance redressal mechanism have been mooted for the effective implementation of the National Food Security Act. The proposed mission will have an advisory role, mainly to advise the government and its agencies, autonomous bodies, and non-governmental agencies involved in the delivery of services for effective implementation of food and nutrition-related schemes and also to enable individuals to...
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The federalism question by Karan Singh Tyagi
For implementing food security Act Constitution of a Sate Food Security Mission and district-level grievance redressal mechanism have been mooted for the effective implementation of the National Food Security Act. The proposed mission will have an advisory role, mainly to advise the government and its agencies, autonomous bodies, and non-governmental agencies involved in the delivery of services for effective implementation of food and nutrition-related schemes and also to enable individuals to...
More »Govt offers talks to anti-dam lobby
-The Telegraph Dispur this evening formally invited the anti-dam groups for talks on January 5 while issuing a separate public appeal asking them to withdraw their blockade of supplies to the Lower Subansiri hydel project, in a bid to end the standoff that began on December 16. CMO sources said home secretary G.D. Tripathi this evening issued the formal letters to Lakhimpur-based groups through the district administration and to the Guwahati-based organisations...
More »No farmer suicide in last 3 years, Centre quotes state report by Mahir Haneef
Even as the state government was dealing with the spurt in farmer suicides in Wayanad in 2011, officials informed the Central Government that no farmer suicides were taking place in Kerala, according to an affidavit filed by the Central Government in the Kerala High Court on Monday. In a counter-affidavit filed before the high court on a petition seeking relief measures to farmers in Wayanad, the Central Government quoted the report...
More »Govt departments interpret RTI law differently by Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times Different Central Government departments have different interpretations of the transparency law, Right To Information, when it came to disclosing information. While some government departments have proactively disclosed the information, others have denied similar information citing prohibitory clauses of the RTI law. This reporter had filed a RTI application with the Cabinet Secretariat seeking copies of the minutes of the Group of Ministers and Empowered Group of Ministers constituted since June...
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