It’s not just the NCTC — we need to provide a statutory basis and oversight mechanisms for all our intelligence agencies The protest by eight chief ministers, characterising the Union government’s decision to give powers of search and arrest to the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC ) under Section 43 (a) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967 as an assault on federalism, comes in the wake of a “sticky bomb”...
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Govt moves to take conduct code out of EC purview by Maneesh Chhibber
After its senior leaders defied Election Commission strictures over the model code of conduct, the Congress-led UPA government has started working quietly on giving the code statutory backing. If it is successful, complaints pertaining to code violations will go out of the purview of the EC. The “secret” agenda notes circulated for the seventh meeting of the group of ministers (GoM) on corruption, headed by union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, scheduled...
More »Dr Abhijit Sen, Member-Planning Commission of India, interviewed by Ajay Vir Jakhar and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Dr Abhijit Sen is Member, Planning Commission of India. He is a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (currently on leave as Professor of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University) and has also taught at the Universities of Sussex, Oxford and Cambridge. Besides serving various think tanks in the states and at the centre, Dr Sen has been a consultant with UNDP, ILO, FAO and various other multilateral...
More »Karnataka CM Sadananda Gowda's 287 aides cost exchequer Rs 70L every month by ND Shiva Kumar
Karnataka chief minister has 287 people, including principal secretary, advisors and dalayats (who do menial jobs), to assist him and together they take home Rs 70 lakh as salary every month. This excludes security personnel who guard chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda round the clock. An RTI query revealed there are 237 personnel for the CM at Vidhana Soudha, 21 people assist him at his home office 'Krishna' and 29...
More »Public Health Foundation of India comes under the RTI Act: CIC
-PTI The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), an autonomous public private partnership project headed by the Prime Minister's cardiologist K Srinath Reddy, comes under the ambit of the RTI Act as it is substantial financed by the government, the CIC has held. The PHFI came into existence in the year 2006 with an initial fund corpus of Rs 200 crore, in which government had contributed Rs 65 crore, the Central Information...
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