-Sabrang India Union of Anganwadi workers urges the state government to supply adequate nutrition and resolve the conflict. Uttar Pradesh Anganwadi Employees Union demanded timely and appropriate delivery of supplementary nutrition to anganwadi centres as per Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) scheme. The demand was reiterated following a conflict between workers and the people of Bulandshahr on February 28, 2022. On Monday, anganwadi workers protested outside the district administration’s office to demand an...
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Vaccine not mandatory, Centre tells Supreme Court -R Balaji
-The Telegraph The bench asked additional solicitor-general to give details to rebut allegations that jabs were being administered forcibly to people, including school kids Covid-19 vaccines are not mandatory, not even for children, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai, however, asked additional solicitor-general Aishwarya Bhati to come out with details to rebut allegations that vaccines were being administered forcibly to people,...
More »Environmentalist Ravi Chopra interviewed by Seema Sharma (Newsclick.in)
-Newsclick.in Slope destabilisation, soil erosion and sequestered carbon loss have increased, according to Ravi Chopra. Noted Dehradun-based environmentalist Ravi Chopra recently resigned as the chairman of the Supreme Court (SC)-appointed High Powered Committee (HPC) overseeing the environmental impact of the Narendra Modi government’s Rs 12,000 crore 889-km Char Dham highway widening project in Uttarakhand. The Char Dham project, one of the largest road-widening projects in the Himalayan region, intends to connect the four...
More »Ready to give Aadhaar card to sex workers, UIDAI tells SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu But they have to get certificate from a gazetted officer of health departments of States or from official with NACO, it says The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it was willing to issue Aadhaar card to sex workers without insisting on proof of residence/identity, provided they got a certificate from a gazetted officer of the health departments of the States or from...
More »‘Only underprivileged languish in jails’: SC grants bail to 18 life convicts -Abraham Thomas
-Hindustan Times The court also ordered that life convicts who have undergone imprisonment of 10 years or more be entitled to bail, while those who have stayed for more than 14 years be considered by Allahabad high court for premature release, besides being released on bail. It is only the underprivileged people who have to languish in prisons as those belonging to the high society escape the country, the Supreme Court observed...
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