The fourteenth Public Accounts Committee (2014-15) report, submitted to the 16th Lok Sabha in April this year, has found that despite various interim orders issued by the Supreme Court from time to time (based on a writ petition that was filed by People’s Union for Civil Liberties in April, 2001), the Government of India has failed to universalize the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. This means India has to...
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State Cabinet to take final call on food security Act today -Ishfaq Tantry
-The Tribune Centre allocates addl foodgrain to J&K to meet shortfall Srinagar: Even as the Centre has decided to allot additional foodgrains to J&K to meet the shortfall, the state Cabinet, which is scheduled to meet here on Tuesday, is going to take a final call on whether it will implement the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013. This was submitted by Advocate General Riyaz A. Jan before a division bench of the...
More »Begin With Gram Sabha -TR Raghunandan
-The Indian Express It can be strengthened —by the collection of taxes at the local level, for instance. Democratic decentralisation, conceived two decades ago, seems to be a lost cause at first sight. Beyond lip service by politicians, neither panchayats nor municipalities have captured the public imagination as viable, responsive, accountable institutions of government. Just after the Karnataka panchayat elections, which ended on June 2, the continued disempowerment of local governments is...
More »PUCL plea in SC questions delay in implementation -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu The 2013 Act was supposed to have been implemented by July 5, 2014 The Centre’s resolve to rid the country of hunger will be tested with a petition being filed in the Supreme Court challenging the year-long delay in implementing the Right to Food Act and validity of three administrative directions issued by the government, postponing food and cash entitlements from reaching the poor. A petition filed by the People’s Union...
More »Why we need to bust the myths about agriculture in India -Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
-DNA India's agriculture sector is thriving and can provide livelihood to millions more. False pictures form the main plank of the political debate on India's agriculture. One is that of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the other of the Congress. The two big political parties in the country agree with each other in believing that farmers and the landless folk in the villages are at the end of the tether, and...
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