-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a move to step up pressure on polluters as Delhi faces its annual winter bad air days, the Centre said on Saturday that criminal prosecution will be launched against violators failing to take action despite warnings and offenders will also be named and shamed on official websites. Noting poor compliance of its directives to check air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the Centre said the names of...
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Punjab's burning problem -Jacob Koshy & Vikas Vasudeva
-The Hindu Farmers in Punjab continue to burn paddy stubble every winter despite a ban on the practice. Jacob Koshy and Vikas Vasudeva report on the compulsions that drive farmers to adopt this method of clearing their fields and the efforts by the State administration to wean them off it The highway to Bibipur, a hamlet about 50 km from Patiala town, cuts through acres of paddy. Some of the rice stalk...
More »Indu Bhushan -- CEO of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) -- interviewed by Bindu Shajan Perappadan (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana on the challenges and scope of the scheme and responses from the States Indu Bhushan is the CEO of the world’s largest government-funded health insurance scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 23. Until his appointment as CEO of PM-JAY, Mr. Bhushan served as director general for the East Asia...
More »Many private schools in Delhi reject EWS entries even as 13,000 seats remain vacant -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times According to records of Delhi’s Directorate of Education (DoE), of the 48,122 seats reserved under the so-called economically weaker section or EWS category in private schools at the entry level, only 35,500 seats have been filled. New Delhi: Almost 13,000 nursery seats reserved for children from economically disadvantaged households in private schools in the 2018-19 academic session remain unfilled in the city with less than two months remaining for the...
More »Major crimes down 25-70% in Delhi this year, claim cops
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The crime situation in the capital appears to be well under control. At least, the numbers say so. The latest crime data released by Delhi Police shows a dip in all major crimes till September 30 as compared to corresponding figures last year. Not just that, many crimes, which had witnessed a constant rise in the last five years, have also gone down. According to the...
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