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Helpline on disaster reaps farm distress -Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

-The Telegraph New Delhi: A home ministry helpline offering information on quake-hit Nepal has been swamped by Indian farmers airing their distress, embarrassing a government already under the Opposition's cosh for its "anti-farmer" policies. Compounding the discomfiture, most of the callers are demanding the Rs 15 lakh that Narendra Modi had, during last year's election campaign, promised to deposit in every bank account after retrieving black money from abroad, ministry officials said. "We...

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Housing plan: BPL out, caste census in -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre plans to change the criteria for selecting the beneficiaries of its rural housing scheme for the poor, dropping the earlier poverty-list-based method for one that uses a points system based on the ongoing caste census. The government believes the proposed reform will achieve better targeting by including deserving families left out of the below-poverty-line (BPL) list, but critics feel it would leave a huge number of...

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In Vidarbha, First the Skies Dried Up, Then the Government's Promises -Sreenivasan Jain

-NDTV Vidarbha, Maharashtra: First the skies dried up, and then it rained heavily, too heavily for Ramesh Khamankar's cotton crop. In January, the cotton farmer from Maharashtra's Vidarbha region poisoned himself to death. The crisis that has engulfed this region this year was not just of bad weather, but also one which had its origins miles away from the ruined cotton fields of Vidarbha. Falling demand from China pushed down the...

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If we hobble Right to Information, then we hobble India’s democracy -Sanjoy Narayan

-Hindustan Times It took nearly 15 years for India's Right to Information Act (RTI) to finally become a law in 2005 after the late VP Singh (who was India's prime minister briefly) first stressed the importance of a law that would give citizens the right to seek and get information. But now that landmark act could become toothless in far less time than that. If that happens, it will be a...

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Amend law to shield honest babus, hasten decision-making, directs PM -Dipak Kumar Dash & Sidhartha

-The Times of india NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the personnel department to expedite amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act after the country's top Bureaucrats cited it as a major factor weighing on them while taking decisions in "public interest". Officials said the issue was raised with the PM when he met secretaries last Wednesday, saying the fear of being prosecuted for wrong reasons was hindering swift decision-making...

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