-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a move to involve private players more to clean Ganga, the govt is keen to allow corporates to spend their CSR fund without any interference of municipal bodies in 118 cities and towns along the river. Corporates would be allowed to undertake projects that contribute to this mission after getting easy approval from the municipal bodies. "The issue was discussed at a meeting chaired...
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State power sans public reason -Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu The government's reasoning that the land ordinance was meant to extend the benefit of the new law to various types of land acquisitions left uncovered so far is disingenuous Democracy is an exercise in public reason. Democratically elected governments cannot simply throw around the weight of their majority. They have a responsibility to offer good reasons for their decisions. And they must do so publicly. That is why we follow...
More »MP wants to level Chambal ravines into farmlands -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh government wants to turn the ravines of Chambal - a unique geographical feature once infamous for sheltering dacoits - into agriculture fields by levelling the twisting hillocks. Considering the undulating and barren topography, the task of levelling the mud ravines for agriculture seems stupendous, but chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday formally placed the proposal before the Centre when he met Union...
More »PM to launch ‘Beti Bachao’ with a bang on January 22 -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After Swachh Bharat and Make In India, the Modi government's big bang flagship scheme will be "Beti bachao, beti padhao'' that will bring much needed attention to the country's low child sex ratio. The scheme will be launched by PM Narendra Modi on January 22 and will focus on a multi-sectoral approach to tackling the problem of the vanishing girl child. A toilet in every girl's...
More »Friends, foes alike slam Modi govt's land policy
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Modi government of surreptitiously restoring a century-old British law on land acquisition even as the party brainstormed on "weakening" of UPA's "aam aadmi" policies, firmly adopting a left-of-centre approach to take on BJP. Congress appears set to launch an agitation against the NDA government's policies of coal mine auctions, liberalized land acquisition, Forest Rights Act and a restructured...
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