Four years ago, High Court asked the State to bring the rate to almost nil Infant mortality rate stands at 33, two points down from 35 in 2006 Rural infant mortality at 53 has not declined since NFHS-2 done in 1998-1999 Four years ago, alarmed by the level of child mortality in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court directed the State government to “ensure that by September 30, 2011, the infant mortality rate due...
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SC faults Centre, states on NREGS implementation
The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the Union and state governments for their failure to discharge their duties under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( NREGA) aimed at providing "right to livelihood" to millions of poor in the hinterlands. Noting the disbursal of Rs 33,506 crore out of the total available fund of Rs 42,529 crore for 2009-10, a Bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S...
More »SC threatens Orissa with CBI probe for NREGA bungling
Expressing serious concern over faulty implementation of the government’s flagship programme, NREGA, in Orissa, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the centre and the state government to explain within four weeks why a CBI probe should not be ordered into the irregularities. “We are constrained to observe that the Union of India as well as the state of Orissa, prima facie, have failed to effectively and purposefully implement the provisions of...
More »Enslaved by tradition: the manual scavengers of Vidisha by Mahim Pratap Singh
Over 200 families in this district of Madhya Pradesh continue to bear the brunt of caste discrimination.Vidisha, a thriving trade centre of ancient India, finds glorious mention variously for Emperor Ashoka's governorship, for featuring in Pali scriptures and Kalidasa's romantic epic Meghdoot, as a premier tourist destination in glossy brochures of Madhya Pradesh Tourism and as the parliamentary constituency of Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok...
More »“I have neither seen nor heard the Radia tapes”
Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai on Saturday said he had neither heard nor seen the tapes of conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and others, and denied leaking the tapes at the behest of Home Minister P. Chidambaram.“I wish to clarify that neither I, nor the Ministry of Home Affairs had, or have any access to any of the tapes concerning the interception of Ms. Radia's telephones,” Mr. Pillai said...
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