-The Indian Express Mindful of the fiscal challenge the national food security law is likely to bring, the government proposes to give itself the option of raising the price of foodgrains three years after the law is rolled out. To ensure that the UPA’s showpiece welfare legislation is not grounded because of opposition from the states, the food ministry is set to drop the provision for setting up a National Food Commission...
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Samajwadi Party opposes anti-rape Bill, says it is 'anti-women' -Ravish Tiwari
-The Indian Express The Samajwadi Party (SP) Thursday voiced its opposition to the revised Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, teh so-called anti-rape bill which seeks to crack down on crimes against women. “SP will oppose the Bill. It is anti-women and will create anarchy in society in the name of providing safety for women,” said SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav. He said the SP, which provides outside support to the UPA...
More »Roadblocks ahead for anti-rape Bill -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu SP, BSP unhappy with some provisions A Bill providing for tougher punishment for crimes against women, including rape, acid attack, stalking and voyeurism, was approved by the Union Cabinet on Thursday, after a Group of Ministers, constituted to prescribe safeguards, completed its examination of the draft law in a record two days. On March 18, The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, will be discussed at an all-party meeting before it goes...
More »GoM for lowering age of consent to 16-Smita Gupta
-The Hindu A year after the United Progressive Alliance government passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, raising the age of consent for sex from 16 years to 18, the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up on Tuesday to suggest changes in the new draft law to check crimes against women has recommended reducing it to 16. Currently, Section 375 of the IPC says that one of the conditions for...
More »Rehabilitation norms liberalised for slum dwellers in Capital -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-The Hindu For millions of slum dweller in Delhi, there is finally some reassuring news in the form of Amendments brought in by the Delhi Government in its slum policy. As per a notification issued on February 25, this year, lakhs of slum dwellers would be benefited by the liberalised norms on their identification and entitlement for rehabilitation. Stating that it was the pressure mounted by the slum dwellers themselves which made the...
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