-PTI Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Saturday said judges should not govern the country or evolve policies, and they should apply the enforceability test on some verdicts like making sleep a fundamental right. Doing some frank introspection on the judiciary’s functioning, he wondered what would happen if the executive refused to comply with its directives that might not be enforceable. “Right to life, we have said, includes environmental protection, right to...
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UNEMPLOYMENT dole on the way out in State?-KPM Basheer
-The Hindu UNEMPLOYMENT dole, introduced in Kerala in 1982, the first State to do so, could soon be a thing of past if Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has his way. “We need to rethink on the UNEMPLOYMENT dole as it does not serve any purpose now,” Mr. John toldThe Hindu . The government spends Rs.50 crore a year on the UNEMPLOYMENT assistance scheme and there are roughly 3.5 lakh people getting...
More »Yet another data goof-up: Labour ministry sets up panel to look into errors in job survey
-The Economic Times The labour ministry has set up a panel to look into discrepancies into its second annual employment and UNEMPLOYMENT survey, which may have resulted in wide variation in performance of different states. "The committee will look at all aspects of the survey, including the methodology and the original field level data used. It will also look out for processing errors," a labour ministry official told ET. The findings of the...
More »SC cages tiger tour, stirs deep concern
-The Telegraph The Supreme Court today banned tourism in the core areas of India’s tiger reserves till further orders, fuelling fears among tour operators and some conservationists that people would lose the chance to watch the animals in the wild, local economies would bleed and poaching would increase. The court, responding to a petition by a non-government environment organisation, acknowledged concerns expressed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority that tourism may be...
More »Higher your education, harder it is getting a job-Rukmini Shrinivasan
-The Times of India India's official UNEMPLOYMENT rate last year was 3.8%, data released recently by the Labour Bureau shows, but, as always, averages hide many stories. A closer look at the numbers shows that UNEMPLOYMENT rises with education level to 10% among graduates, and higher still for backward castes. The Chandigarh-based Labour Bureau under the union ministry of labour and employment released the 'Employment and UNEMPLOYMENT Survey 2012' last week. The...
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