-The Times of India PATNA: If you want to become Mukhiya, Pramukh, district board chairperson or even a ward member of your gram-panchayat by contesting panchayat polls in Bihar, you must have to construct a toilet at your individual home. Bihar Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a legislation- the Bihar Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2015, bringing some new provisions including making it mandatory for candidates contesting all level of panchayat raj elections...
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While whistleblowers already face death threats, their life is set to become even more difficult -Nayantara Narayanan
-Scroll.in The Lok Sabha has passed a Bill that requires a complaint to pass some 34 tests before it can be considered by the Competent Authority. While Vyapam scam whistleblowers Anand Rai, Prashant Pandey and Ashish Chaturvedi continue to face threats to their lives and livelihoods, the Lok Sabha has passed a Bill that’s not very encouraging to future whistleblowers. The Whistleblowers Protection (Amendment) Bill 2015, right now due for consideration by...
More »Land bill: Modi govt gives in, agrees to bring back UPA’s key provisions -Pradeep Kaushal & Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express Sources said all the 11 BJP members in the Joint Committee of Parliament on land Bill on Monday moved amendments seeking to bring back social impact assessment and consent clause. In a major climbdown following sustained opposition pressure, the government on Monday agreed to drop most of its contentious amendments to the Land Acquisition Act of 2013, bringing back the crucial clauses related to consent of affected families...
More »Land Bill: Govt capitulates on social impact, consent clauses
-Business Standard Ruling party MPs suggest changes to six of the nine amendments proposed by govt to the 2013 Act The government is set to relent on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015. On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of a parliamentary joint committee on the Bill suggested amendments that effectively bring back the social impact assessment and consent clauses,...
More »Govt land law climbdown
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A joint parliamentary committee has favoured restoring most of the provisions of the UPA's 2013 land law into the land acquisition Bill the Centre wants to pass, signalling a climb-down by the government. Sources said that even the BJP members on the 30-member panel had favoured scrapping the exemptions that the NDA's current Bill provided from the social impact assessment (SIA) and consent provisions. This would not have been...
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