His crime: he complained of corruption in rural job guarantee scheme Dhuraram Kuldiya, former Sarpanch of Somalsar Panchayat in Nohkha teshil of Bikaner district, did not sign an SOS he sent to Rajasthan Chief Secretary on Monday in the form of a letter. Instead, his son Bhanwarlal inked it. Not that Dhuraram is illiterate. Admitted to a private hospital here in the State capital now, he cannot use his hands for both...
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Govt mulls six-and-a-half year MBBS with one-year rural stint
-The Times of India India is planning to make its undergraduate MBBS course six-and-a-half years long, instead of the present five-and-a-half years. In a meeting on Saturday, health ministerGhulam Nabi Azad and the Medical Council of India (MCI) discussed amending the MCI Actthat would make a one-year rural posting compulsory for all MBBS students before they can become doctors. The proposal was first mooted by former health minister A Ramadoss in 2007. Speaking...
More »Child Politicians Bring Change to rural India by Sonia Faleiro
Pooja Gujjar is the consummate politician. She’s quick-witted and outspoken, and, as her every-ready, dimpled smile suggests, always up for a challenge. She has, admittedly, a girlish streak. The first time she stood for election she chose as her symbol a flower. And although she lost, to a boy, she’s proud that all the girls voted for her. Pooja is the deputy “sarpanch” – Hindi for leader – of her school’s...
More »Food min moves SC to prod Plan Panel, 2 Cong-led govts by Nitin Sethi
In an extraordinary effort at resolving policy disputes, the Union food ministry pleaded before the Supreme Court on Thursday to order the Planning Commission to release funds for reforms in the Public Distribution System (PDS) and to order the rural development ministry to provide details of how many people in the category of poorest of poor had been left out of PDS. In its affidavit filed in court, the ministry also accused...
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-The Hindu At least 100 adolescents from Madurai, Theni and Ramanathapuram districts are suspected to be engaged in units making ‘murukku' in Jharsuguda district, Orissa, said Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Madurai Range) B. Bala Naga Devi here on Sunday. The Madurai rural Police arrested three persons, including a broker, on charges of forced labour and wrongful confinement of children. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Ms. Bala Naga Devi said a 15-year-old...
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