-TheWire.in Contrary to expectations, the report shows that 40,000 more undertrials were held in prisons in 2020 than in 2019. Congestion in prisons in India came into renewed focus after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Courts took urgent measures to prevent the spread of the contagious virus in prisons, asking State Governments to set up high powered committees to release incarcerated persons on bail or parole. As a consequence, it is...
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How Nameplate Changes, Sleight of Hand Helped the FM Assemble Budget 2022’s ‘Big Capex Boost’ -Subhash Chandra Garg
-TheWire.in What you lose on the wings, you gain on the roundabouts. With no other major growth investments or policy reforms in the budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman made capital investment the lynchpin of the government’s growth strategy in Budget 2022. Stressing that “the virtuous cycle of investment requires public investment to crowd-in private investment” she took high moral ground to say that the “public investment must continue to take the lead and...
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-IndiaToday.in Mid-Day Meal Scheme will be including millets in order to enhance the nutrition among children, said the Minister of State for Education, Annpurna Devi. Mid-day meal will include millets (coarse grains) soon, said the Minister of State for Education, Annpurna Devi in a written reply to Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Central Government requested State Governments/Union Territory Administrations under PM POSHAN Scheme to include millet in the midday meal in order...
More »Show commitment to equity in the Budget -Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
-The Hindu The Government needs to stop India’s avalanching slide into a grossly divided society, made worse by the pandemic On January 17, 2022, Oxfam International presented its annual global “Inequality Report”. Titled Inequality Kills, the report calculated and presented the quantum growth in wealth of a minuscule few, and the simultaneous impoverishment of millions of working people. During the novel coronavirus pandemic, the report reveals, more than half the world’s new...
More »National Coalition on the Education Emergency releases Policy Trackers on State Education Finances and School Opening Status
--Press release by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated January 29, 2022 An education emergency of unprecedented proportions has severely impacted hundreds of millions of children in India. Prolonged school closures have caused learning deprivation, student dropout, increased child labour, malnutrition, and early marriages that are compromising the future of our country. It is time to open schools and massively increase funding of public education with a clear focus...
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