-The Indian Express Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly promised India "maximum governance". But to get there, the high costs and ineffectiveness of frontline service providers need to be addressed. Take elementary school teachers, for instance. "Complete rest in comfortable conditions" is the description a rather candid elementary education cluster resource centre coordinator (CRCC) in Bihar gave his own job. And it's not just him, it is also how the CRCC describes...
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India is now the world’s slave capital: Global Slavery Index 2014 -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: With over 14.2 million in India being involved in forced labour and being victims of trafficking - for sexual exploitation and forced marriage, the country is home to the largest number of people trapped in modern slavery. Globally, 35.8 million people are enslaved across the world. Of them, 23.5 million people are in Asia, two-thirds of global total in 2014 (65.8%). The Global Slavery Index 2014 announced...
More »Missing kids anger SC
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Supreme Court today castigated the governments of Chhattisgarh and Bihar for providing inadequate and inaccurate data on Missing Children and for not adhering to its order on mandatory FIRs. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justices A.K. Sikri and Arun Misra, which heard representatives of both states, asked them to file fresh affidavits detailing the number of children rescued and the number of FIRs filed while...
More »24% of global missed TB cases in India: WHO -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: One in every four missed cases of tuberculosis (TB) globally is in India.The World Health Organisation has found that India tops the list of the world's missed TB cases. Almost 24% of the world's missed TB cases are from India, according to the Global TB Report 2014 released on Thursday. Ten countries accounted for 74% (2.4 million) of the estimated "missed" cases globally in 2013. The number of...
More »Chief secretaries, DGPs will be accountable for Missing Children: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it will periodically summon chief secretaries and DGPs of those states from where a large number of children go missing regularly. As a first step, it summoned the chief secretaries and DGPs of Bihar and Chattisgarh and asked them to be present in court on October 30. The SC passed this order on a petition filed by Nobel Laureate Kailash...
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