-Hindustan Times Patna: Guns and goons have played a key role in Bihar’s politics for decades. As the eastern state heads to the polls next month, outlaws with itchy trigger fingers as well as ‘baahubalis’, or strongmen, are back in the FRAme. Dozens of erstwhile gangsters have found their way into mainstream politics either directly or through spouses and relatives. Some of them will not contest the polls, but their influence can...
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Public’s health is at peril, warns National Health Profile
A day before the Prime Minister of India left for a two-nation tour to Ireland and the United States this September, the National Health Profile 2015 was released by the Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri JP Nadda. The report, which has presented a dismal picture of the state of public health, shows that cases of cancer is expected to rise in India by almost 15 percent from 11.5...
More »Ramesh Chand, member of NITI Aayog and eminent agriculture economist, speaks to Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard India’s growth in agriculture and allied activities has struggled to reach the targeted four per cent average a year in the first three years of the 12th five-year Plan because of a host of factors. The below-average farm growth is widely expected to deepen the crisis in the farm sector. In an interview with Sanjeeb Mukherjee, newly-appointed member of NITI Aayog and eminent agriculture economist Ramesh Chand said over-reliance...
More »Gender Disparity in MGNREGA: Women deprived of basic facilities at work site -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The MGNREGA promises 100 days of employment every year to each rural household. The Act mandates that at least a third of the workers under the scheme should be women. The flagship rural job guarantee scheme may have succeeded in ensuring that a significant proportion of its workforce comprises of women, but it has failed to bridge the gender gap and include women in a holistic way, a...
More »For Digital India, fix the tech gap in the government first -Rajeev Chandrasekhar
-Hindustan Times U-turns on net neutrality, porn ban and now the draft encryption policy. This is the third time in as many months that the Centre has had to take a step back in the face of a strong public outcry against ‘draft policies’ relating to technology and the digital consumer. For a government that is committed to a Digital India and transformative powers of technology, the series of missteps point to...
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