-TheWire.in In response to an RTI query in the matter, the ministry stated: "If this information is disclosed, it will have an impact on India's sovereignty and integrity as also on the country's security, and strategic, scientific and economic interests." New Delhi: Last month, the Central Information Commission (CIC) had asked the Ministry of External Affairs to disclose the names of the government and private individuals who had accompanied Prime Minister Narendra...
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Almost Rs 4,000 Crore Spent, but the Ganga Is More Polluted Under Modi's Watch -Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in The Narendra Modi government has initiated many projects to clean up the Ganga, but pollution has increased at several sites where the river's water is monitored. The water is not fit for drinking, bathing or domestic purposes. Professor G.D. Agarwal, the prominent environmentalist who spent several years for the cause of cleaning up river Ganga, passed away on October 11. He had been on a fast for 112 days. Professor Agarwal...
More »What Is Affecting the Performance of the Public Sector? -Kiran Bhatty and Dipa Sinha
-TheWire.in Most of the ‘reforms’ that are being introduced to address poor delivery of social services are silent on the issue of inadequate human resources, among other shortfalls in capacity. The poor performance of the public sector especially in education, health and other social services has been the subject of a lot of debates in the last few decades. The dominant narrative has attributed implementation failures to corruption, lack of accountability, poor...
More »Narendra Modi Could Have Learnt so Much From GD Agarwal. But It's Too Late Now. -Rohit Kumar
-TheWire.in While the PM proclaimed in 2014 that ‘Maa Ganga had called him’ and spent the next four years spending close to Rs 5,000 crore publicising himself and advertising his intentions, the other man led a life of near-obscurity working away year after year for the cause of a cleaner Ganga. The act of public fasting has been so completely reduced to political gimmickry in recent times that it barely registers in...
More »Top-Level Exits at NSDC as Modi's Skill India Agenda Still Struggles to Make Headway -Anuj Srivas
-TheWire.in The exits of COO Jayant Krishna and CPO Vishal Sharma come as 'Skill India' has to reckon with the fact that its targets were over-ambitious and its implementation not solid enough. New Delhi: Two senior executives of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) have left the organisation, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, in a development that comes even as India struggles with its mission to skill...
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