-Business Standard Between April and September 2014, the central govt released Rs 13,618 cr to states, against Rs 24,676 cr in the same period last year Kolkata: The Union government has severely cut the funds for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, one of the largest job-creation programmes in the world, even as it deliberates on framing new norms for it. Compared to last financial year, there has been nearly a 45...
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Key Rajasthan labour reforms get President’s approval -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint Move will give firms more flexibility in hiring and firing of staff, make tougher the registration of labour unions New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday gave his assent to key labour reforms, including Amendments to the Industrial Dispute Act, Contract Labour Act and Factories Act that the Vasundhara Raje-led Rajasthan government had forwarded to the Union government after they were passed in the state assembly two months ago, a central...
More »Executive Decision: How NDA is tweaking social sector laws -Nitin Sethi
-The Business Standard The NDA is using the discretionary powers allocated by the UPA government to either chip away at or metastasize social sector programmes The NDA government has found two ways to deal with the social sector programmes and policies it has got from UPA as legacy. Some of these the NDA wants shrunk or diminished and it's doing so through executive fiat, often in stealth mode. Then there are others...
More »Officials reluctant to declare assets, DoPT backs them -Maneesh Chhibber
-The Indian Express The NDA government's move to amend the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 in the coming winter session of Parliament has run into rough weather following differences between various government departments over whether government servants and their family members should declare their assets, and whether such information should be made public or not. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is learnt to have sided with the bureaucracy in...
More »Taking away forests: Tribal consent regulations to be diluted -Nitin Sethi
-The Business Standard Against nodal ministry's protest, under PMO guidance, MoEF prepares to largely remove need for gram sabha agreement to use or give away forest land The central government is set to dilute the rights of tribals and other forest-dwelling communities, doing away with the present legal need for their consent while handing over their forest land to industry in large parts of the country. Business Standard has reviewed documents that detail...
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