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Deocha Coal Project: ‘Vigil’ by Police, TMC Cadres Creating ‘Fear Psychosis’ Among Adivasis -Rabindra Nath Sinha

-Newsclick.in CM Mamata Banerjee has started handing over compensation packages, but SKM and other outfits have accused it of bypassing holding of gram sabhas. Kolkata: The Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harisingha (DPDH) coal block under Mohammed Bazar Development Block in Birbhum district is fast becoming a “symbol of the West Bengal government’s high-handedness”. So much so that local residents, a large number of whom are adivasis/santhals, are being cautious in airing their concerns about the proposed...

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Data check: Three out of four prisoners in Indian jails are undertrials -Nileena Suresh

-India Spend/ Scroll.in While the total number of prison inmates rose by 1% between 2019 and 2020, the number of undertrial inmates increased by nearly 12% Three in four prisoners in India’s jails are under trial, according to government data for the year 2020, the latest year for which such data is available. This is the highest share of undertrial detainees in prison since at least 1995, the earliest year for which...

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

-Counterview.net Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court to go back to the case Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC , (Tata Mundra case) concerning immunity from the suit for the World Bank Group and foreign nations. They said, the immunity decision in the...

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Rural Distress Makes India Inc. Call for Higher MGNREGA Allocation -Rabindra Nath Sinha

-Newsclick.in By doing so, the corporate sector seems to have cautioned the government against expecting a fast rebound in industrial activity, as there is sizeable idle capacity in the absence of consumption demand. Kolkata: Rural stress and funds for the rural job guarantee scheme were surprise additions in the organised corporate sector’s listed points for the post-Budget interaction with the Union government held on February 5 under the aegis of the Confederation...

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'Midday Meals in Schools Only After 100% Attendance': Delhi Govt Responds to Legal Notice

-TheWire.in The Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan sent a legal notice to the Delhi government highlighting that midday meals in schools did not resume even though schools reopened for physical classes on February 14. New Delhi: The Delhi government has said that the doorstep delivery of dry ration kits will continue rather than hot cooked midday meals till 100% attendance is achieved in Delhi government schools after the Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar...

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