The winds of democracy are making it harder for India to negotiate the construction of mega hydel projects in Bhutan. Fixing terms and conditions for bringing power from Bhutan was a cakewalk with the first three hydel projects five years ago. With newspapers other than the Kuensel , a tiny but vocal Opposition in Bhutanese Parliament and exiled leaders raising issues relating to sovereignty, Indian officials are now having to work...
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NHRC notice to Madhya Pradesh on missing workers
-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary, returnable with a report in six weeks, on allegation that 40 labourers were not traceable after heavy cranes collapsed at an under-construction cement factory in Narsingarh village in Damoh district. The NHRC was acting based on media reports. The reports said that about 300 labourers, mostly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, were working at...
More »The weak link in child development
-The Business Standard Vimla Devi is a committed anganwadi worker (AWW) in a remote village in Uttar Pradesh, the most populated state of India. Anganwadi is a village level institution under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), one of the most talked about flagship programmes of the Indian Government. She is also the weakest link in a critical programme, which is underfunded, says Shantanu Gupta in the first of field-data reports, the...
More »‘Centre will ensure fair deal to tribal people'
-The Hindu The Central Government is trying to put in place a system which will not only ensure minimum support price to tribal produce but also get maximum remunerative price. Informing this to media persons here on Sunday, Union Minister for Tribal Welfare and Panchayati Raj V. Kishore Chandra Deo said that he was working on a policy paper on minor forest produce in this regard. “All the states are stakeholders. We...
More »Down the river, flotilla of dead fish
-The Telegraph Not all dawns break like this for Mamata Das. Swept out of bed at 6am by ripples of excitement swirling outside her home, Mamata found herself wading into the Karala, the “Thames of Jalpaiguri”. What else would you do when you wake up to news that lifeless fish after fish are bobbing up the river? They floated down in all shapes, sizes and species — the boal, a catfish and a...
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