-The Indian Express The Aam Aadmi Party’s strategy is a good one for some immediate relief. However, it must initiate action on all the other measures now. Delhi has become the most air polluted city in the world. Urgent and effective actions are needed to bring the pollution level down. The cost to the health of Delhi citizens far exceeds any cost that some may have to bear to reduce it....
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A diluted Bill -V Venkatesan
-Frontline The Janlokpal Bill passed by the Delhi Assembly on December 3 fails to meet the goals of the 2011 anti-corruption movement and is a pale shadow of the 2014 Bill. IT took the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, which came to power in Delhi with a massive mandate in the Assembly elections held in February, 10 months to seek to fulfil one of its key election promises: the passage of...
More »Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog speaks to Mahendra Kumar Singh & Surojit Gupta
-The Times of India Ramesh Chand has spent over three decades in farm research and teaching agricultural economics and policy. He has now been appointed as a key member of the NITI Aayog to prepare a blueprint for the revival of the agricultural sector. In an interview to TOI, Chand talks about prices, rural distress, role of cutting edge technology and the need for state run institutions in the farm sector....
More »Dongria Kondhs Say no to NFSA Rice
-The New Indian Express BHAWANIPATNA: Hundreds of Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district resolved not to accept PDS rice at a meeting at Parsali under Kalyansinghpur block of Rayagada district on Saturday. The Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh, who attended a meeting chaired by convenor of Niyamgiri Surakhya Manch Lada Sikoka at Rayagada, refused to the accept rice under National Food Security Act (NFSA). The meeting was also attended by senior members Dadhi...
More »Nothing free or basic about it -Prabir Purkayastha
-The Hindu We need to provide full Internet at prices people can afford, not privilege private platforms. This is where India’s regulatory system has to step in The airwaves, the newspapers and even the online space are now saturated with a Rs. 100 crore campaign proclaiming that Internet connectivity for the Indian poor is a gift from Facebook which a few churlish net neutrality fundamentalists are opposing. In its campaign, Facebook is...
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