-The Hindu A helpline in Odisha is empowering students to act as watchdogs to monitor implementation of the RTE Act, which completes three years in April "My teacher does not come to school," speaks a little voice on one end of the phone line. At the other end, a woman responds reassuringly, asking for the child's details - name of the school, the district. Within a matter of days, the ‘teacher' is...
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Crimes of exclusion-Siddharth Narrain
-The Indian Express It is anger on the streets that brought the neglected issue of sexual violence back to the forefront, energised a government-appointed committee to put together clear and well reasoned recommendations on law reform and forced the government to table the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013. It is public pressure and years of struggle by the women's movement that is reflected in the more progressive parts of the bill,...
More »Agriculture vs technology -Deepak Pental
-The Indian Express No country has ever achieved prosperity without engaging with science and technology (S&T). The ascent of the West and its global domination owes much to its prowess in S&T. In Asia, Japan and South Korea and more recently China have taken the highway to prosperity by mastering technology and effectively dealing with complexity. Chinese economist Justin Yufi Lin in his book The Quest for Prosperity has argued that...
More »Cash-for-cards policy draws ire
-The Hindustan Times The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday criticised the Delhi Government's move of linking the monthly cash assistance doled out to Kashmiri migrants to Aadhaar cards and asked the authorities to reconsider its decision. The party's leader of opposition VK Malhotra, condemning the move, termed the "unjustified" decision as a ploy of the government to strip the migrants of their Kashmiri identity. "The Delhi Government is trying to force the...
More »Minorities in one state can't run trusts in another: Supreme Court -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express In order to enjoy minority status, an institution not only requires to be set up by people from minority categories in a state but also administered by them, the Supreme Court has ruled. Making it clear that concession under Article 30 is not absolute but subject to restrictions, a Bench of Justices S S Nijjar and M Y Eqbal said that members of a linguistic minority in one...
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