-The Times of India RANCHI: Labourers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) would have hardly imagined that a day would come when they would be paid their wages, which were pending for more than two years now. As many as 91 labourers, who worked with the hope of supporting their families in the winter of 2010, were pleasantly surprised when they were paid not only their outstanding...
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Lest we forget-Vikram Kapur
-The Hindu It will be a decade tomorrow since whistleblower Satyendra Dubey was killed. A tribute. You would have been scared. You would have been scared, when you left your home in the village of Shahpur at 15 in search of a good education and a better life. You would have been scared that first day at the IIT, wondering how you, a village boy from Bihar, would cope with all the...
More »NDRF to lead relief, rescue operations as cyclone Lehar set to hit Andhra Pradesh -Pranav Kulkarni
-The Indian Express Pune: About 1200 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) will be deployed for relief and rescue operations as cyclone Lehar is expected to hit coastal Andhra Pradesh by Thursday. The rescue and evacuation operations which involve teams from the defence paramilitary forces will include 30 NDRF teams, each consisting of 40 personnel, according to Alok Awasthy, commandant of Pune-based fifth NDRF battalion. While 10 teams from Vijaywada-based...
More »Accidents and Road Safety: Not High on the Government’s Agenda -S Sundar and Akshima T Ghate
-Economic and Political Weekly Among all countries, India has the highest number of deaths due to Road traffic-related accidents. Road accidents are the sixth leading cause of death in the country, and there were nearly 1,40,000 deaths from Road accidents in 2012. Despite being a major public health issue that affects the most vulnerable and also the most productive sections of society, Road safety has not received the attention it deserves....
More »Is Public Interest Litigation an Appropriate Vehicle for Advancing Road Safety? -Girish Agrawal
-Economic and Political Weekly Public interest litigation has value as a tool for enhancing Road safety. But it is unlikely to succeed if it asks courts to give directions to the government on a wide range of Road safety policies, or if it asks for amendments to the law, or if it asks the judges to direct the government on desired legislation. It has a fair likelihood of success in a...
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