-DNA Mumbai: The state has charged penalties of more than Rs5.5 crore from various contractors authorised for Aadhaar card enrollment. The state has charged penalties of more than Rs5.5 crore from various contractors authorised for Aadhaar card enrollment. The details were made available through a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by Anand Pargaonkar. Around 13 agencies are given the contract to enroll people for Aadhar cards. Details provided by the state's...
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SC points to Ambani, questions cover for rich -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Wednesday frowned upon official security cover being provided to the rich, saying if the government and police had been alive to providing adequate security to citizens, then 5/6-year-olds would not have been raped in the country. Even though the government's decision to provide paid security cover through CISF personnel to one of the world's richest businessmen, Mukesh Ambani, did not figure specifically during the...
More »Half of India’s dalit population lives in 4 states -B Sivakumar
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Four states account for nearly half of the country's dalit population, reveals the 2011 census. Uttar Pradesh stands first with 20.5% of the total scheduled caste (SC) population, followed by West Bengal with 10.7%, says the data released by the Union census directorate on Tuesday. Bihar with 8.2% and Tamil Nadu with 7.2 % come third and fourth. Dalits form around 16.6% of India's population. The 2011...
More »The curious case of 5,984 Kalawatis in Sahara list -Appu Esthose Suresh
-The Indian Express By May 2, Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Ltd (SIRECL) has to prove the "genuineness" of all its investors to the Supreme Court. It has a difficult task on its hands: the name ‘Kalawati' figures 5,984 times on that list, same names appear against different locations, and geography takes a giant leap with ‘Jaipur Nagpur Maharashtra' and ‘187 Aurangabad Lucknow UP' mentioned as addresses. SIRECL had given the list...
More »Farmer population falls by 9 million in 10 years -Rukmini Shrinivasan
-The Times of India There are now nearly 9 million fewer farmers than there were in 2001, the first time in four decades that the absolute number of cultivators has fallen. Census data released on Tuesday shows that while the proportion of cultivators to the total workforce has been falling steadily, this is the first time since 1971 that the number of cultivators has fallen in absolute terms. The office of the...
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