-Express News Service A Mumbai-based RTI activist, who had sought information on various issues including the Adarsh Society scam, was found unconscious by roadside at Palsana in Surat district on Sunday. He later told the police that he was abducted by a gang in Mumbai. Santosh Tiwari (42), a former employee of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) who now works as a security consultant for a private firm, was found unconscious...
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Decadal journeys: debt and despair spur urban growth by P Sainath
The re-classification of villages and towns, and the changes this brings to the nation's rural-urban profile, happens every decade. Yet only Census 2011 shows us a huge turnaround, with urban India adding more people (91 million) than rural India (90.6 million) for the first time in 90 years. Clearly, something huge has happened in the last 10 years that drives those numbers. And that is: huge, uncharted migrations of people...
More »Ways Of Owning, Ways Of Belonging by Neha Bhatt
Why we are doing this story * Tribal lands are under pressure across India. In Orissa, they have been holding out against big corporates like Vedanta and Posco. *** From afar, the fumes rising from factory chimneys in Gujarat’s industrial belt make them seem like skyscrapers on fire. It’s a grey rust-and-chemicals stretch that they call, without irony, the Golden Corridor. It extends all the way from the north of Ahmedabad, through...
More »Surat’s sex ratio poor, officials worried by Rishi Banerji
While it has achieved exceptional growth in many spheres, Surat is lagging behind in terms of gender equality. As per Surat Municipal Corporation records, the sex ratio shows a dismal trend in the city. The gap is high in the child sex ratio i.e. 0-6 age group.As per birth registration figures provided by SMC, the city is far behind the national average. In 2010, 816 girls were born against 1000 boys...
More »RTI activists meet, resolve to form body
-The Indian Express A number of RTI activists from Gujarat on Sunday resolved to form an association to address their issues in the wake of the rising number of attacks on them. Around 50 RTI activists from , Surat, Kutiyana and Khambha organised a protest programme under the aegis of Citizens Resource and Actions Initiatives (CRANTI) near Lal Darjawa today. Among the participants were Bhikhu Jethava, father of RTI activist Amit Jethava,...
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