A long-pending demand of civil society activists and NGOs, who are campaigning for probity, accountability, and transparency in public life, is going to be fulfilled soon. A welcome move has been made by the Government to enumerate and publish data on crimes committed against media persons, Right to Information activists, and whistleblowers in the forthcoming edition of Crime in India, which is published annually by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)...
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Govt to strip land bill of sticky clauses, let states decide
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to work out the contours of the reworked land acquisition bill by next week amid indications that it may be purged of all the politically unpopular provisions. It is learnt that the Modi government may allow states to draft their own acquisition laws with the frame of reference being the central law which would only have "pro-people" measures; a tack aimed at...
More »Indian Labour Conference fails to reach consensus, govt to approach unions again -Surya Sarathi Ray
-The Financial Express The Modi government’s ambitious labour reform agenda may take a while to be implemented as the 46th Indian Labour Conference (ILC) that concluded in New Delhi on Tuesday could not reach a consensus on many contentious proposals and resolved to hold tripartite consultations. The Modi government’s ambitious labour reform agenda may take a while to be implemented as the 46th Indian Labour Conference (ILC) that concluded in New Delhi...
More »Call from cream of legal fraternity: Stall law that seeks to try juveniles as adults -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express One of the criticisms of the proposed amendment is that it could, in one stroke, legalise the illegal detention of thousands of underage children by policemen across the country. As a potentially chaotic Rajya Sabha attempts to take up the contentious Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2015 — passed by the Lok Sabha and listed for the Rajya Sabha Wednesday — a number of legal...
More »Shortage of free condoms perils AIDS control drive
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Government may face some tough questions during the monsoon session of Parliament with its ambitious national AIDS control program in jeopardy due to the lack of funds. At least 15 states have reported severe shortage of free condoms, while five to six of them have announced they are out of stock, sources said. Though shortages have been continuing for over a year now, many states like...
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