The National Food Security Bill has the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of the poor if properly implemented. However, the Bill in its present form has some easily correctible flaws that could cause huge problems in the future. A couple of simple Amendments would greatly simplify the implementation and also allow innovation in the delivery of food subsidy. First, the proposed framework based on three categories of...

The Law Commission recommends making Section 498A, IPC, compoundable, and women's groups say that would affect women's interests. A REPORT of the Law Commission of India on “Compounding of (IPC) Offences” suggesting that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which prescribes punishment for a husband or his relatives for subjecting a woman to cruelty, be made compoundable with the permission of the court, is fraught with several implications. The report...

-The Times of India   Tribal leaders from across the state announced to protest any move by the state government to amend the Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act and deprive tribal people of their rights. The tribal leaders present at the mahapanchayat organized by the CNT Act Suraksha Samiti here on Sunday took vows not to hesitate to launch massive agitation in case the government changes the provision of the act which prevents transfer...

-PTI Voicing safety concerns over encroachments along rail tracks and trespassing which claim nearly 15,000 lives every year, a high-level railway panel has suggested Amendments to existing acts and setting up of a task force in Mumbai where such deaths are highest. "No civilised society can accept such massacre on their own railway system," the Anil Kakodar-led safety committee said and suggested Amendments in the Public Premises Eviction Act and the Railway...

Tribal leaders outrightly rejected any move to change the CNT Act and lambasted some of the tribal leaders and political class that have advocated changes in century-old Land Act. Called by the CNT Act Bacaho Suraksha Samiti (committee to save CNT Act), veteran tribal leaders and activists gathered at Morhabadi Ground on Sunday where they threatened to launch a Statewide agitation if Amendments in the Act were proposed by the Government. Addressing...