The recent Supreme Court of India’s judgments (please click here and here) related to ensuring food security of the migrant and unorganised sector workers through the provision of dry ration, running of community kitchens and proper implementation of the 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme should come as no surPRIse to us. A recent review of some of the robust studies, which relied on multi-state surveys (or reference surveys), having...
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Women in many countries face discrimination in registering children at birth warn UNHCR and UNICEF
-The United Nations Refugee Agency GENEVA / NEW YORK – A joint report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), shows that in many countries women can face discrimination which obstructs or hinders their ability to register births, exposing their children to the risk of becoming stateless. The latest analysis in the report “Sex Discrimination in Birth Registration” found that such barriers may exist...
More »Fr Stan Swamy has expired: But, his questions haven’t -EAS Sarma
-Countercurrents.org In the death of Fr Stan Swamy on July 5, 2021, who was an “under trial” detainee languishing in the custody of the authorities, India has lost a courageous campaigner for adivasi rights. The manner in which the 84-year old Jesuit PRIest was forced to die has shaken the conscience of the nation. What hurts the feelings of any one with a true sense of justice is that the authorities...
More »What exactly Is the Cost of a Ventilator? Rs5.05 Lakh Being Paid to BEL or Rs2.84 Lakh Paid to PRIvate Companies? -Yogesh Sapkale
-Moneylife.in Amid reports of malfunctioning ventilators procured with support from the PRIme Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund), there is a new revelation about different PRIces paid to the government-owned company and other PRIvate players. As per information obtained by Delhi-based right to information (RTI) activist, commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd), the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) spent Rs2,332.22 crore for buying 58,850...
More »‘PM CARES has paid only for three-fourths of ventilators ordered in APRIl 2020’ -PRIscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu More than 16,000 machines from PRIvate manufacturers yet to be installed: Health Ministry data More than a year after the PM CARES fund announced it would buy and distribute 50,000 ventilators for ₹2,000 crore, only ₹1,532 crore has been released, according to a Health Ministry response to a Right to Information request filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd). The remaining money is awaiting clearance from the fund, said an official. A...
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