-The Times of India Changes in laws dealing with sexual assault approved by the CABinet define "position of authority" to include social, political and economic dominance over a victim of rape - parameters wide enough to encompass most forms of exploitation. The fine print of Thursday's CABinet decision also retains an important caveat to making 18 the age of consent with an exception being made -- with reference to Section 375 of...
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Crop damage from frost, cold now a natural calamity -Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu From now on, damage to crops due to extreme cold or frost will be considered a natural calamity and the affected farmers will be eligible for financial relief from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) or the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF). The Union CABinet, at a meeting on Thursday, approved the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Drought to this effect. So far, crops damaged in natural...
More »Centre’s nod to replace word ‘rape’ with ‘sexual assault’-Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu The Union CABinet on Thursday approved a proposal to replace the word “rape” with the phrase “sexual assault”, making it a gender-neutral offence and identified acid attacks as a separate offence punishable by a maximum of ten years. Union Minister for Women & Child Development (WCD) Krishna Tirath confirmed that the CABinet had given the go-ahead to the draft proposal. “Besides the two proposals that have been accepted, it has...
More »Rural Development Ministry proposes plan to assess effectiveness of welfare schemes
-The Economic Times It was in the mid-eighties that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi said if the Centre released a rupee for the poor, only 15 paisa reached them. Decades later, not much has changed. With leakages, delays, and uneven implementation of welfare schemes like NREGA, blunting benefits to the poor, the rural development ministry is proposing to put in place a system to assess the effectiveness of the schemes even...
More »Analysing welfare schemes: Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh wants concurrent evaluation
-The Economic Times It was in the mid-eighties that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi said if the Centre released a rupee for the poor, only 15 paisa reached them. Decades later, not much has changed. With leakages, delays, and uneven implementation of welfare schemes like NREGA, blunting benefits to the poor, the rural development ministry is proposing to put in place a system to assess the effectiveness of the schemes even...
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