Will you go and make complaints to the same public official against whom you have a grievance? Of course not. However, in a judgement dated 21 July, 2017 by a two-judge Supreme Court (SC) bench, it has been observed that officers in charge of implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), were also designated as District Grievance Redressal Officers (DGROs) by several state governments. Section 15 of NFSA The SC...
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Regulator turns up heat on erring CAs -Arun S
-The Hindu Complaints filed & punishment given, says institute chief. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has said 4,445 complaints have been registered against CAs as on June 30 this year, and punishment has been awarded in 402 cases until March 2017. The CA regulator, however, said it was pushing for amendments to the norms to help expedite action against wrongdoers in the profession. PM sought action This development comes within a...
More »186 cases of abuse in AFSPA enforced states in 4 yrs -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Between 2012 and 2016, a total of 186 complaints of human rights abuses by defence personnel were recorded in states where the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 is in force, with the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir accounting for almost half the complaints. Of the 186 complaints received between, the ministry of home affairs (MHA), while answering an RTI query, said that 127 cases...
More »Calcutta HC warns Narendra Modi govt of 'action' if judges' posts are not filled -Ashok Bagriya
-Hindustan Times There are more than 400 posts of high court judges that lie vacant across the country. The Central government is believed to be the country’s biggest litigator, being a party in about half of the 27 million Pending Cases. The Calcutta high court on Thursday warned the Narendra Modi government of “appropriate action” if appointments of judges were not made at the earliest. The country’s oldest high court has a...
More »Small farms are eating away farmers' profits and productivity -Harini Calamur
-DNA Most of Europe avoided the fate of India, because of a very strict feudal law — that of following primogeniture, a system of inheritance by the firstborn (usually the first born son). Karnataka — preceded by UP, Punjab and Maharashtra — is the fourth state to have waived off loans taken by farmers. However, this is not going to be the end of the matter. You are likely to...
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