-VillageSquare.in With the countrywide lockdown to arrest spread of COVID-19, migrant workers who started returning home from destination sites are caught in borders with scant amenities. Government needs to intervene to ensure safe passage For the last ten days or so, state governments have been announcing movement restrictions and advisories about not moving. The lockdown trial euphemistically titled Janata Curfew was observed on the 22nd of March. Trains were stopped from that...
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Covid-19: Disaster Act invoked for the 1st time in India -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The 21-day national lockdown imposed by the Narendra Modi government to combat the spread of Covid-19 , and which starts at 12.01 am Wednesday is the first time provisions of the National Disaster Management Act, 2005, are being invoked. In an order issued by the home ministry, the home secretary as chairperson of the National Executive Committee of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued guidelines for the...
More »Govt in Supreme Court: NRC necessary for sovereign country
-The Indian Express The petitions had also challenged Section 14A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which provides legal backing for the NRC, on the grounds that it suffered from excessive delegation of powers to the Executive and is therefore arbitrary. New Delhi: In its first legal response before the Supreme Court on a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), the central government has said that it is a “necessary exercise for any...
More »Women Write to CMs, Seek Delinking of NPR from Census 2021
-Newsclick.in About 1,000 women lawyers, academics and organisations have sent letters to all chief ministers, ahead of the updation process likely to begin on April 1. New Delhi: About 1,000 women lawyers, academics, anganwadi workers and organisations from 20 states have written letters to all chief ministers of the country, flagging to them the ‘grave danger’ to women due to linking the updation of NPR with the house listing of Census 2021. Releasing...
More »13 demands: What the government must do to contain the coronavirus disease in India -Jan Swasthya Abhiyan & All India People’s Science Network
-Statement on the COVID-19 pandemic by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and All India People’s Science Network(AIPSN), March 2020 A charter of demands by the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan and All India People’s Science Network. From January 30, when the first case of Covid-19 was reported, till today, March 15, the number of confirmed cases in India has risen to 110, and there have been two deaths. The Government of India has reacted swiftly...
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