-The Telegraph Former CEC Sushil Chandra retired on May 14 this year, handing over charge to Rajiv Kumar The post of the third election commissioner has been vacant for the last four months. While this is not unprecedented, former heads of the poll panel said a delay makes the Election Commission of India vulnerable to a potential deadlock. Former chief election commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra retired on May 14 this year, handing over...
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Minister Says New Forest Laws Don’t Dilute Tribal Rights. They Do—And Govt Planned Dilution since 2019 -Tapasya
-Article-14.com In June 2022, India’s environment minister Bhupender Yadav claimed that the legal rights of millions of Indian Adivasis or tribals had not been diluted in new changes to procedures that govern how forests are given to industry. But government documents reveal that doing away with the Centre’s responsibility to verify tribal rights had been the environment ministry’s intent since 2019. New Delhi: On 28 June 2022, the union government amended India’s...
More »What the Bangalore Floods tell us about our Democracy -Sushmita Pati
-The India Forum Urban floods as in Bangalore are not just a result of failed governance. They also reflect a failure of our democracy, where the citizen does not participate in decision-making and later sees spectacles like demolitions as signs of action. Neecha Nagar was the first film from India to go to the inaugural Cannes Film Festival in 1946 and win the Palme D’or. Neecha Nagar, or the “Lowly City”, was...
More »MGNREGA: The Last And Often The Only Resort For Indian Women -Sunaina Kumar
-IndiaSpend.com Even as the rural employment programme provides low wages, it is a source of income and opportunity for women who have few other avenues of work in rural India and face barriers in migrating out of the village for work Rajsamand, Rajasthan: The year that Chanchal Kumari was born was the year of the drought in Rajasthan--2002. For two years, the state had a severe water shortage--no water for drinking or...
More »Macrovariable projections in uncertain times -Arun Kumar
-The Hindu International factors and faulty data will impact India’s projections of GDP, inflation and balance of payments The Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate again by a whopping 0.75%. The Reserve Bank of India has also been forced to raise interest rates further but also take other steps. These decisions in the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting are based on what the members of the MPC see as the likely...
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