-The Times of India In the cleaning of nearly 13 lakh insanitary dry toilets across the country, human beings and animals play an almost equal role, the Supreme Court was told on Monday. In what could deal a severe blow to the sanitation claims of successive governments, petitioner NGO 'Safai Karmachari Andolan' culled out data from the 2011 census report to inform the court that 4.97 lakh dry toilets were "serviced by...
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kashmir amends RTI Act, commissioner cries foul -Peerzada Ashiq
-The Hindustan Times The Jammu and kashmir government’s fresh amendments have rendered the most successful institute of public transparency and accountability, state Right to Information Act, powerless, triggering sharp reactions from civil society and political parties. Surprised state’s chief information commissioner G.R Sofi accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah-led government of making unnecessary changes to make state information commission (SIC) a “toothless body”. “In first place, there was no reason to come up with...
More »Govt amends RTI Rules-Umer Maqbool
-Greater kashmir Srinagar, Aug 30: Jammu and kashmir Government Thursday did away with the detailed Rules guiding the implementation of Jammu and kashmir Right to Information Act- 2009. The move comes at a time when Jammu and kashmir Government has been making repeated claims about ensuring transparency and accountability in governance by a strong RTI Act. The General Administration Department today notified new RTI Rules 2012 to replace RTI Rules 2010. The new...
More »In kashmir, families of missing people move human rights panel -Nazir Masoodi & Janaki Fernandes
-NDTV Srinagar: More than 500 families of missing persons in Jammu and kashmir have filed cases before the state Human rights panel seeking that DNA tests be conducted on the thousands of unmarked graves in northern kashmir. This comes after the Jammu & kashmir government refused to exhume bodies in unmarked graves and carry out DNA profiling to ascertain their identity. The state government told the human rights panel that their investigations concluded...
More »India has 11th most domestic refugees -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India India, dubbed 'the melting pot of cultural diversity', is also home to the world's 11th largest population of 'Internally Displaced People' (IDP). These people are forced to relocate fearing religious, ethnic or other persecution in conflict-induced situations. India and Turkey are the only 'stable' country in the list of 12 nations which have witnessed forced migration of a million or more. Others are either ravaged by ongoing...
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