While India’s new Right to Education Act seeks to bring free and compulsory education for all children, it seems to short-change them through an unrealistic vision of the private sector’s involvement. In August 2009, the Right to Education Act was passed in the Indian Parliament with no debate, by the fewer than 60 members who happened to be attending the session that day. Not that the Act was an open-and-shut...
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Punjab farmers to oppose BT Maize
Eminent citizens, farmers and environmental activists on Friday threatened to launch a sustained agitation to oppose entry of BT Maize crop into Punjab and prevent any attempt to jeopardise the country's food sovereignty. This was announced at a press conference organised in response to reports that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had supported cultivation of BT Maize as part of the State Government's crop diversification mandate. Kheti Virasat Mission chief Umendera Dutt...
More »RTI plea returns undelivered by J Venkatesan
The office of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister has no Public Information Officer (PIO) to receive applications filed under the Right to Information Act. An RTI application seeking details on who assisted (the then chief of Union Carbide) Warren Anderson, the main accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, to leave the country with full VVIP protocol, was returned ‘undelivered' to activist Subash Chandra Agrawal stating that “there was no post...
More »Posco row: Survey begins as villagers lift barricades by Debabrata Mohanty
Four days after anti-Posco agitators agreed to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s proposal, the socio-economic survey that would form the ground of the compensation package for the oustees of Posco steel project started at the twin villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur. Eight teams entered Gobindpur gram panchayat area in Jagatsinghpur district and started the survey for the Rs 52,000-crore project without any police protection. On June 13, the anti-Posco body, Posco...
More »Villagers on the run as police hunt for Maoists by Raktima Bose
One year after anti-Maoist operations began in this district, it is a story of mixed success. While normal life has been restored, with offices, shops and schools having re-opened, vehicles back on the roads and farmers back in the fields, an eerie calm prevails. Villagers still complain of late-night gunfights and sudden police raids keeping them up through most nights. They are haunted by fears of discovering a bullet-riddled body...
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