More than five years have passed since the world’s largest employment proGramme was launched in India. The scale of employment generated was not the only reason that this is a path breaking legislation. The MGNREGA is the first national law to establish rights in the development sector. It is demand based, and not constrained by arbitrary and restrictive selections like the Below Poverty Line (BPL) list. Any person living in a...
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Orissa defers land acquisition for Posco by Prafulla Das
The Orissa government on Saturday deferred land acquisition for the proposed mega steel project of Posco till Monday, as pressure mounted on it for withdrawal of armed policemen from three Gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district. The authorities announced the postponement owing to bad weather, hours before social activist Swami Agnivesh visited Govindpur to express solidarity with the agitating villagers who have formed a human barricade at the entry point to their village, with...
More »It's force vs children at the POSCO agitation zone
-PTI It is force versus children in the battle for land to set up South Korean giant POSCO's proposed mega steel project in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district where the anti-displacement stir has entered the decisive phase. While a determined state government has accused the POSCO Pratirodh SanGram Samiti (PPSS), a body spearheading agitation, of using the children as a "shield", the villagers sought to differ. "We involve children in the agitation to counter...
More »NAC to monitor proGrammes at panchayats now by Nistula Hebbar, Kirtika Suneja
After land acquisition and food security, the National Advisory Council (NAC) has set its sights farther, this time to monitor proGramme implementation at panchayats. The council led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi feels the ministry of statistics and proGramme implementation is not doing enough to monitor the panchayat proGrammes, while panchayati raj ministry has little say since most proGrammes are out of its purview. Monitoring panchayats would be part of an...
More »The social network by Sunil Khilnani
'Civil society' is a special kind of political capacity, not a repository of any special virtue—and it is not more inherently valuable than the state The story of Indian democracy sometimes plays like a soap opera. The latest episode—not the uplifting kind—involves a confrontation between the government and a mysterious something called “civil society”. Can this “civil society” cavalcade in to rescue a flailing Indian democracy—that once-proud system now being abused...
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