JANGU, 40, a Dalit labourer in Paraspur village in Gonda district, 120 km northeast of Lucknow, displays his job card in complete disbelief. “My job card was made three years ago and shows three payments. But I was never given any work, so how was the payment made?” he asks, puzzled. The first entry shows a payment of Rs 1,400 but he received a paltry Rs 100. He never went...
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All government welfare schemes to undergo Supreme Court’s anti-corruption test by Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Friday ordered an investigation into whether the benefits of government's welfare programmes like NREGA were reaching the intended beneficiaries and to fix accountability for ensuring that they do, in what is going to be a gigantic exercise. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya appointed senior advocate Indu Malhotra as amicus curiae and asked her to study the details...
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-The Hindu Step paves way for providing quality and compulsory education to all children of school-going age The Tamil Nadu Elementary School Teachers' Federation (TNESTF) has thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for notifying enforcement of the Right to Education Act, thereby paving way for providing quality and compulsory education for all children of school-going age. Federation General Secretary N. Rengarajan and president K.Kamaraj expressed happiness over the State being in the forefront to implement...
More »Why Durban is the Kyoto protocol's last chance by Amy Goodman
With climate change already claiming human victims, the world must get an agreement out of the UN conference in South Africa The United Nations' annual climate summit descended on Durban, South Africa, this week, but not in time to prevent the tragic death of Qodeni Ximba. The 17 year-old was one of 10 people killed in Durban Sunday, the night before the UN conference opened. Torrential rains pummelled the seaside city...
More »RTE Act awareness imperative by Meera Srinivasan
Notification of rules is a step forward, but a lot more needs to be done A bunch of children selling toys at a traffic signal, small boys cleaning tables at restaurants or washing glasses at tea shops or little girls engaged as baby sitters – the effective implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, will possibly make such instances a thing of the past. However, for...
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