-Tehelka The NDA government’s move to open more Jan Aushadhi stores ignores the multitude of issues currently plaguing them Amidst the jostling crowd at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Shahdara, Delhi, is 68-year-old Suresh Chandra, holding his medical files on one hand and prescription letter on the other. Chandra, who is a lung disease patient, moves towards the Jan Aushadhi store, situated in the hospital premises. Chandra hopes that the government-run medical...
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Picturing the rural
-The Indian Express Socio-economic census data provides valuable pointers — and reality checks — for policymakers The socio-economic and caste census (SECC) 2011 paints a picture of rural India weighed down by landlessness and lack of non-farm jobs. More than 60 per cent of the 17.91 crore rural households covered under the census qualified as deprived on 14 parameters. This is a set of people who do not own a two-wheeler...
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-PTI Medical expenses incurred on judges and their family members cannot be disclosed or made public under the Right to Information Act, the Supreme Court held on Thursday. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy refused to interfere with a Delhi High Court verdict dismissing a plea seeking details of medical reimbursements of Supreme Court judges, saying it had personal information and providing it would...
More »How the Government of Madhya Pradesh is Blatantly Violating the Right to Information Act -Atul Dev
-CaravanMagazine.in On 13 February 2014, Ajay Dubey, a Right to Information (RTI) activist based in Bhopal, filed an RTI regarding the appointment of government advocates in Madhya Pradesh (MP). Well-versed with the condition of RTI applications in the state, Dubey did not expect to get a reply from the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Law and Legislative Affairs department of MP. “The government’s attitude is lacklustre when it comes to...
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-NDTV Raisen, Madhya Pradesh: A toilet scam has apparently been flourishing in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district. This was the conclusion the state government came to, after disbursing nearly 1 crore over the last three years under the State's Samagra Swachta Abhiyaan, sources told NDTV. On paper the district has 4000 toilets -- only a fraction of them can be found on the ground. "The Sub Divisional Magistrate has served notices to 44 sarpanchs,...
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