-The Hindu 2,000 deaths averted per year, says SRS bulletin Bengaluru: India’s Maternal Mortality RATio (MMR) has seen a decline from 130 per 1 lakh live births in 2014-2016 to 122 per 1 lakh live births in 2015-2017. A decline of 8 points (6.2%) was observed during this period, according to the latest Sample RegistRATion System (SRS) 2015-2017 bulletin for MMR released on Thursday. This is good news for India as nearly 2,000 maternal...
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PS Krishnan, bureaucRAT behind landmark social justice legislation, dies -Amrith Lal
-The Indian Express Till his last, Krishnan, who died in Delhi Sunday aged 87, remained partial to the depressed classes and worked towards the destruction of the caste order, relentlessly exposing its institutional manifestations. New Delhi: EARLY IN his career in the civil services, P S Krishnan received an entry in his confidential report that he would read out as the perfect summation of his career. It read: “Undue partiality to depressed...
More »Swachh BhaRAT In The City -Himanshu Gupta
-The Indian Express Urban areas require a different approach to end open defecation. The Swachh BhaRAT Mission is being executed by two different ministries — the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation for rural areas and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for urban areas. In the rural areas, the major challenge was to change the mindset of the populace so that they would start using household toilets RATher than...
More »Fix the legal system, look beyond the apex court -Arghya Sengupta
-Hindustan Times Improve judicial infrastructure, expand judicial training, and develop an evidence-based approach to reforms Think of a single, prominent white dot plotted against a black background. Imagine taking a step back and observing the picture. You would not be the only one if you only observed the dot and overlooked the vast expanse of black, though present in compaRATive spatial abundance. The Supreme Court of India, the white dot in India’s...
More »Four pillars of Indian justice system miss one major force- Women -Shreehari Paliath
-India Spend/ Business Standard The India Justice Report by Tata Trusts released on November 7, 2019, finds women poorly represented, accounting for 7 per cent of the police 10 per cent of prison staff At the current RATe, nine Indian states will take more than 50 years to increase the share of women in their police forces to 33 per cent, as recommended, a new report estimates. While Madhya Pradesh will take...
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