-The Indian Express The Union Cabinet has reversed its July 2006 decision to limit the disclosure of file notings to certain issues and to exclude certain departments under the RTI Act. While the Cabinet decision is welcome, a major hurdle in the path of transparency in governance is yet to be addressed as file notings of the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC), which clears appointments to more than 2,500 key posts...
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Show 'em the money -Josy Joseph
-The Times of India Crest Cash transfers have been described as the world's favourite new anti-poverty device. As India gets set to implement it, TOI-Crest finds out if the politics will ever be divorced from the cash The UPA government's ambitious plan to introduce direct cash transfers (DCT) by January 1, 2013 reflects both the political desperation of a beleaguered government and the urgent need to reform India's inefficient and corrupt public...
More »Tougher EPFO norms for employees -Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organization), which manages lifetime savings of 6.15 crore individuals, has just made life tougher for workers. Employees will now have to prove that their employers deducted the statutory dues while giving them salaries, a move that will further benefit construction companies and contractors in particular who often claim that they have paid salaries to thousands of workers without actually transferring...
More »191 fake encounters in last five years, NHRC tells Supreme Court -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court, which relentlessly strove to bring to book perpetrators of the fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat, has an explosive situation on its hands as the National Human Rights Commission informed it that 191 fake encounter killings took place in the country in the last five years. Appalled by the attitude of the Manipur government in responding to over 1,500 alleged fake...
More »Crores go down the drain in filthy Yamuna: court -J Venkatesan
-The Hindu IIT experts to suggest clean-up measures Expressing “anguish” that Yamuna water in Delhi has become filthy despite thousands of crores being spent on improving its quality, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed a committee of technical experts. It was perhaps time to involve experts from the Indian Institutes of Technology to suggest clean-up measures, said a Bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B. Lokur, hearing a petition. It asked the...
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