-The Indian Express Census 2011 counted 14.2 crore migrants in the decade preceding it, intra-district to inter-state. Women moved for marriage, men for work, economic reforms drove the change, and Surat emerged as No. 3 destination while Chennai fell far behind. In a country with a long and often violent history of sons-of-the-soil politics, migration is a politically fraught issue. From the attacks on south Indians in Mumbai in the 1960s...
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There's a 'Bizarre', Incomplete Logic to Amended RTI Act -Wajahat Habibullah
-Newsclick.in The amendments contradict the federal nature of the Act, and end up violating the PM’s principle of cooperative federalism. Information is the currency that every citizen requires to participate in the life and governance of society —AP Shah, former Chief Justice, Delhi and Madras High Courts, 2010. It is not just Shah but many justices of the High Courts and the Supreme Court, who have repeatedly stressed that the right to information is...
More »Residents of illegal colonies to get ownership rights: Delhi CM
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday that residents of 1,797 unauthorised colonies of Delhi will soon get ownership rights to their properties. The bonanza comes a few months before assembly elections in Delhi and two days after the Union housing and urban affairs ministry circulated a Cabinet proposal for formulating a framework for the exercise. The cut-off date for regularisation of these colonies is...
More »Every number in Budget is authentic, says Sitharaman amid row over disparity in GDP figures
-The Indian Express The Economic Survey, released by Chief Economic Advisor S Krishnamurathy a day before the Union Budget, pegged the nominal GDP growth at 12 per cent while the budget projected it at 11 per cent. New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Wednesday dismissed speculations surrounding the GDP figures quoted in the Union Budget, saying “every number is authentic”. Replying to the debate on her maiden Union Budget in the Lok...
More »Why 116 Dalit farmers in Gujarat want police protection from upper caste 'encroachers' -Samyak Pandey
-ThePrint.in Dalit farmers in Gujarat allege that they are being prevented by upper castes from cultivating land given to them by the state government for farming. New Delhi: As many as 116 Dalit farmers from Gujarat approached Chief Minister Vijay Rupani this week for protection over an alleged threat to their life from upper-caste “encroachers”. The farmers, who belong to Rapar and Bhachau talukas of Kutch, allege that their upper-caste counterparts have, for...
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