Uttarakhand may be taking credit for passing a strong Lokayukta Bill. But, when it comes to Lok Pals or Ombudsman in the rural development for redressal of grievances of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), they are yet to start functioning in the hill state. In 2009, the Centre had directed all states to set up office of Ombudsman in all the districts in order to BRIng more transparency in...
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GR Sofi, first Chief Information Commissioner of SIC (J&K) talks to Greater Kashmir Team
THE FIRST CHIEF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER (CIC) OF STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION (SIC) G R SOFI, TALKS ABOUT THE RTI ACT AND HOW THE COMMISSION IS WORKING TO ACHIEVE ITS GOALS IN A CONVERSATION WITH GREATER KASHMIR TEAM. HERE ARE THE EXCERPTS. Rajeev Sharma: Do you think the present legislation is enough to achieve the objectives that it is supposed to? G R Sofi: Last month I was in Delhi to attend an annual...
More »UN official underlines link between food security and climate change
-The United Nations Ensuring global food security while striving to save the Planet from damage are the greatest challenges of this century, a senior United Nations official said today, stressing the need to enable smallholder farmers to become more resilient to climate change and to produce more food in ways that are environmentally sustainable. “There is no trade-off between feeding people and saving our Planet,” said Kanayo F. Nwanze, the President of...
More »Karnataka govt to spend Rs 17,000 cr for irrigation
-PTI Karnataka Government has decided to spend Rs 17,000 crore funds in the next seven years to complete all irrigation projects in the Krishna river valley in order to utilise its share of waters. This was informed at an all party meeting convened by the Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to discuss the progress of works in Krishna river basin being implemented by the government. Minister for Water Resources Basavaraj Bommai told...
More »N-regulator: SC will not intervene, says can’t act as House by Krishnadas Rajagopal
Declaring that the “Supreme Court will remain the Supreme Court, and cannot be converted into Parliament”, a three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia today refused to “prematurely” intervene in the setting up of an independent regulator to monitor safety of nuclear plants, saying it was a policy decision, with a Bill already pending in the House. Efforts by advocate Prashant Bhushan, a Team Anna member, to...
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