-The Indian Express The odd-even car proposal is being enforced in Delhi without any evidence or cost-benefit analysis Mahatma Gandhi had said, “Action in the absence of knowledge can be dangerous and worse than no action at all”. This sage advice is ignored by most Indians. In the face of a serious pollution problem prevalent in most Indian cities, especially the smaller towns, we pretend that it is only the people...
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Thanks to Haryana law and SC order, these women and their village will fall off the map -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express The residents of Nimkheda, a small settlement of 1,674 people in Haryana’s Mewat district, are visibly unsettled and worried Nimkheda (Mewat, Haryana): Dressed in a white salwar-kameez, her dupatta wrapped as a headscarf, an upset Ashubi Khan (55) thumped her right palm with her fist as she spoke in Mewati. “My illiteracy is not my fault, but a reflection of the state’s failure to fulfil its responsibilities. Did our...
More »NHRC must create enabling environment for defending human rights -Mahtab Alam
-The Indian Express The time has come for the NHRC and State Human Rights Commissions to proactively recognise, promote and protect HRDs and create an enabling environment for defending human rights. On 28 May 2011, in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, two activists, Ramesh Agrawal and Harihar Patel, were arrested by the state police. Another activist, Rajesh Tripathi, went underground fearing imminent arrest. The trio, along with others, through their organisations—Jan Chetna...
More »Nitish proposes panel to monitor Bihar package
-The Times of India PATNA: In an apparent move to politically besiege PM Narendra Modi on his announcements during the recently concluded assembly elections, CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday urged the assembly speaker to form a joint committee of state legislature to monitor execution of works under all the schemes listed in the much-publicised Rs 1.65 lakh crore special package for Bihar. The CM proposed that the joint committee should be headed...
More »Machines set to foray into job scheme -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The national rural employment scheme is set to allow use of labour-displacing machinery in all activities in a move that, social activists say, would defeat the objective of guaranteed 100 days' work to a rural household. The rural development ministry is set to amend its guidelines under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to allow use of machinery such as JCBs, rollers, mechanical mixers and...
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