-Delhi RTE Forum Press Release · Delhi RTE Forum condemns lack of serious attention to implementing the Right to Education Act in the Manifestos of major political parties. · Delhi RTE Forum demands special attention to Elementary education in the state · Demands proper implementation of the RTE ACT...
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India 'Missing' 3.75 Crore Toilets: Sanitation Activists
-Outlook New Delhi: Sanitation activists today observed 'World Toilet Day' and alleged that 3.75 crore lavatories in India as claimed by Ministry for Rural Development did not exist and were "missing". Activists of Right to Sanitation (RTS) Campaign's India chapter demanded an inquiry into the "huge gap" in the number of toilets existing on the field and the number provided in the data by the Rural Development Ministry and Census 2011. On the...
More »Muzaffarnagar violence: Over 10,000 still in relief camps
-PTI Uttar Pradesh government files status report on Muzaffarnagar violence in the Supreme Court Uttar Pradesh government has informed the Supreme Court that over 41,000 persons, out of 50,955 who had taken shelter in 58 relief camps in riots-hit Muzaffarnagar area, have gone back to their native places. A fresh status report, filed by Divisional Commissioner of Saharanpur, however, admitted that nearly 10,000 persons are still living in 10 operational camps and the...
More »Not at home in their homeland -KumKum Dasgupta
-The Hindustan Times I remember her face but not her name. She was one of the 30 people I met one winter afternoon in 2009 at Basaguda village in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bijapur district. A thin, tall woman, she stood at the edge of the group, listening attentively to her neighbour who was narrating an incident of an armed attack on the village that had left them homeless for months. When my...
More »'Provisions in New Land Acquisition Act to Benefit Society'
-Outlook Jamshedpur: Tata Steel Group Executive Director Koushik Chatterjee today said Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R and R) provision in the recently passed Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act would ensure that state governments work for the benefit of the society. The old Act was more than 100 years old and needed a revamp for the benefit of the society as well as for the industry executing big projects, Chatterjee told reporters here. The...
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