-TheWire.in The government body meant to uphold the RTI has said they are too understaffed and overworked to collect and collate all the information sought by applicants. New Delhi: The pressure of dealing with numerous court cases is taking a toll on the functioning of the office of the Chief Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the Central Information Commission (CIC). Due to the lack of time and the effort needed, it is...
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M Govinda Rao, ex-Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (2003-13), interviewed by S Rajendran (The Hindu)
-The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement demonetising high denomination notes on November 8, 2016, will do little to address the prime objective of flushing out black money but will adversely affect the economy in the short term, especially the informal sector, which is predominant in India, says M. Govinda Rao, a Member of the Fourteenth Finance Commission and Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Public...
More »Delhi poultry traders brace for bird flu hit, say mutton prices may go up -Sweta Goswami
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The poultry market in Delhi is bracing for major losses as demand for chicken has begun to fall after the government on Wednesday confirmed bird flu cases in the capital. As a consequence, mutton prices may spike. For poultry suppliers, the timing of the outbreak couldn’t have been worse as their sales had just started picking up after the lull during the Shravan period in July-August. “As soon as...
More »Now, healing with 'qualified' quacks -R Prasad
-The Hindu The State has taken the lead in providing some essential and basic health-care training to these informal providers. In West Bengal, nearly 3,000 quacks — informal health-care providers with no formal medical education — are to be trained for six months. The crash course in medicine, and to be conducted by 130 trained nurses, is to begin from December 1. The objective is to provide these informal providers with a minimum...
More »Scan on TB protocol
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to examine a doctor's claim that India's "unscientific" tuberculosis protocol stipulates an inadequate medicine regime to cut costs, thus promoting relapses and generating lethal drug-resistant strains. The court did not issue a formal notice to the government but asked additional solicitor-general Maninder Singh to talk to the petitioner, Raman Kakar, and get back to the court. Kakar has argued that the current...
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