-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Aditya Nath Yogi government has resolved to improve the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh but two important pillars of the justice delivery system — the police and the judiciary —are in a dilapidated condition in the state. There is over 47% vacancy of judges in Allahabad high court and more than 55% vacancy in the sanctioned strength of the police force in...
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Not much vikas: Did the prime minister's record on development and governance impress UP voters? -Kanti Bajpai
-The Times of India Blog Whatever else won UP for BJP it wasn’t development and good governance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to office ostensibly on a plank of economic and administrative ‘acche din’. Sadly, he has not delivered. So voters either don’t know his record or they voted for BJP for quite different reasons. What is the prime minister’s record on development and governance? In three years of BJP rule at...
More »House call for paddy price hike -Subhashish Mohanty
-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: The Assembly today passed a unanimous resolution to demand enhancement in the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy from the Centre. The state will now ask the Centre to increase the minimum support price of paddy to Rs 2,930 a quintal. Serious debates on the issue had been going on in the Assembly during the past few days. Agriculture minister Pradeep Maharathy today said: "A House committee will be formed under...
More »Meat row? CM Yogi Adityanath enforcing laws that existed for years -Priyanka Singh
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Even as people go ballistic over news of meat shops being closed down across UP, what the government is doing is simply enforcing rules regarding slaughter and transport of animals. These rules were hardly wielded by municipal corporations so far. Under the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959, it is a mandatory service of local bodies to provide fresh and hygienic meat to people while ensuring construction...
More »MGNREGA lesson for universal basic income: Once introduced, there's no going back -Aurodeep Nandi
-The Financial Express The one irrefutable lesson from MGNREGA, is that once introduced, there will be no going back India is one of the most unequal countries in the world. In terms of Gini coefficient, i.e., measure of income inequity, India ranks a dismal 135 out of 187 countries. This means that most of the prosperity that an increasingly economically liberalised India is seeing, belongs primarily to the top-income percentiles. One in...
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