-IndiaSpend.com Mumbai: Kerala ranked first out of seven states for migrant friendly policies on the Interstate Migrant Policy Index 2019 (IMPEX 2019), an index compiled by India Migration Now, a Mumbai-based nonprofit, which analyses state-level policies for the integration of out-of-state migrants. Maharashtra ranked second with a score of 42 out of 100 compared to Kerala’s 62, and Punjab came in third with a score of 40. Internal migration, both within a...
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RTI reveals threefold rise in number of manual scavengers despite ban -Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in The government, as part of an ongoing survey to identify them, has left out almost half the people who said they were engaged in manual cleaning work. In India, there are more than 40,000 people working as manual scavengers in 84 districts of 14 states. This information was revealed after a survey begun by the Central government in 2018 for their identification. This number is three times that of the number...
More »The seduction of data sovereignty in India -Nayantara Ranganathan
-Hindustan Times It threatens individual sovereignty, undermines citizen rights, and is a lost chance to meaningfully grapple with data colonisation Data is a sovereign asset,” said the Union minister of railways and commerce, Piyush Goyal, at the G20 meeting in Japan. Goyal was against using free trade agreements to justify the free flow of data. Instead, he said, government restrictions on data flows would allow India to be able to use “personal,...
More »Over 5,000 children abandon education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand, Bihar: survey
-PTI In its survey, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said it has observed that a section of children in the mica mining areas are deprived of opportunities and have started working as labourers to supplement their family income Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working...
More »IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan resigns over 'lack of freedom of expression' -SR Praveen
-The Hindu “We got into the service thinking that we can provide voice to people, but then we ended up with our own voice being taken away from us,” said the Kerala-born IAS officer THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan from the AGMUT cadre, who came into the limelight for his anonymous participation in the flood relief efforts in Kerala last year, has resigned from service. The officer, who has been serving as...
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