-The Indian Express The Supreme Court bench of U U Lalit and A K Goyal, which laid down stringent safeguards before registering a case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Tuesday, took a similar line on the anti-dowry law last July. IT’S A tale of two laws and the same two-judge bench. The Supreme Court bench of U U Lalit and A K Goyal, which laid down stringent safeguards before...
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Record government expenditure on MGNREGS underlines rural distress -Elizabeth Roche and Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com The government expenditure on MGNREGS in 2017-18 was nearly Rs. 25,000 crore more than what was spent in 2013-14 New Delhi: The national rural employment guarantee scheme saw a record expenditure of Rs63,887 crore in 2017-18, the highest since it was launched 12 years ago, showed data provided by the government on Monday. However, high demand for work from rural households in a normal monsoon year (2017) also suggests acute rural distress,...
More »Farmers' Anger on Boil in Gujarat -Mahibul Hoque
-Hindkisan.com Farmers allege that the company had not taken possession of the land they sold two decades ago and demanded the company to initiate new acquisition proceedings as per provision of Land Acquisition Act, 2013. The Act prescribes that an agency or entity has to initiate fresh proceedings to acquire a plot if the agency did not take the possession of the land for more than five years. Tear gas shells fired,...
More »Jails overcrowded up to 600 times: SC slams states -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Criticising the apathy of states and Union Territories toward prisoners' human Rights in overcrowded jails, the Supreme Court warned directors general of prisons of contempt of court action if they failed to submit plans within two weeks to decongest jails, which were packed to 150% of their capacity, and in one case at 609%. Referring to overcrowding of jails, for which the SC has been unsuccessfully...
More »Refund and a deeper malaise -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The father of an eight-year-old boy who died in a private hospital in Gurgaon last year from dengue complications said on Thursday the hospital had refunded the full billed amount of about Rs 15 lakh after appeals by an MP and the health ministry. Public health activists said the refund had been made on condition that Gopendra Parmar withdraw the police complaint of overcharging he had filed against...
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