-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The five-year plan, a relic of Nehru-era economic policy, will officially be buried as the Niti Aayog's governing council is likely to approve the government's new policy document: the three-year action plan (2017-2020). The government had announced that it would junk five-year plans from the current fiscal, after the 12th Plan ended on March 31, 2017, and replace it with three-year action plan and 15-year vision...
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Armed With a Toothless Law, the Plight of the Adivasi Worsens -Abhijit Mohanty
-TheWire.in Since coming into effect 21 years ago, PESA has been grossly misused and underutilised, disenfranchising Adivasi communities all over the country. In India, tribal communities have had a long history of struggle, including during the colonial rule. In fact, the tribal war for independence has largely been ignored in the popular history of independent India. Today, most of us are not aware that the war of independence started as early as...
More »Citing cow deaths, Madhya Pradesh government bans polythene bags -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express A cabinet meeting chaired by CM Chouhan endorsed an ordinance to control non-biodegradable waste to enable the ban on polythene carry bags. Bhopal: More than three years after the National Green Tribunal recommended a ban on polythene to protect the environment, the Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday announced a complete ban on polythene carry bags from May 1. The BJP government, however, cited cow deaths as one of the...
More »CAG can now audit UP development authorities
-The Indian Express Govt orders 18-hr power supply to villages, all villages to be covered by 2019 THE STATE Cabinet on Tuesday decided to allow central audit agencies such as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to audit development authorities in the state, which included the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA). The previous Akhilesh government had denied permission to the CAG to audit GDA. In the second Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief...
More »Vulnerable tribes: lost in a classification trap -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu A recent Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) publication has brought to the fore startling revelations about the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in the country inc- luding the fact that no base line surveys have been conducted among more than half of such groups. “Our findings revealed shocking facts, of the 75 PVTGs, base line surveys exists for about 40 groups, even after declaring them as PVTGs,” states the publication:...
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