-The Hindustan Times India's official poverty line-a vital economic statistic-is threatening to snowball into a major political controversy in an election year. Political Parties are busy quibbling over the details of defining a poverty line amid a welter of protests from social activists who are accusing it of abdicating its responsibility. Economists set a poverty line to fix a threshold income to get a headcount of poor people in a country. Households...
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Why these four Political Parties coming under RTI won’t matter -Danish Raza
-First Post While the six biggest Political Parties have chosen to ignore the order to come under the Right to Information Act, a handful of regional Political Parties have embraced it wholeheartedly. However, that won't force the bigger parties to change their ways any time soon. On 3 June, the Central Information Commission (CIC) declared the six national Political Parties, Congress, BJP, CPI, CPI (M), NCP and BSP, as public authorities. However, the...
More »Two out of three say UPA is corrupt-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Growing number believe that the BJP is better at handling corruption Two out of three people feel that the UPA-2 is corrupt and that corruption has increased over the last four years, while a growing number believe that the BJP is better at handling corruption than the UPA, according to the CSDS poll. Even though corruption is only the fifth most important issue for voters in the 2014 elections, according to...
More »Citizens write to parliamentarians to oppose RTI amendments -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Eminent citizens including former Delhi high court chief justice A P Shah, former cabinet secretary TRS Subramanian and former information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi have urged parliamentarians not to sign amendments to the RTI act when it is tabled. The government plans to bring amendments to the act to exclude Political Parties. The letter says that the RTI act has been used to uncover "certain arbitrariness and...
More »Of politicians and some verdicts -N Gopalaswami
-The Hindu Court rulings on freebies, elections and caste-based rallies, and the CIC order on Political Parties are a beginning towards cleansing politics but whether they can achieve the desired result is debatable The slew of judgments from the higher judiciary in the period of just about a month or so has been like manna from heaven on the parched earth of electoral reforms. First, the Supreme Court frowned upon freebies, which...
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