-Business Standard Scheme to benefit close to 450 million workers, mainly in the unorganised sector Stung by repeated resistance from trade unions and strikes, the Narendra Modi government plans to launch a massive social security coverage scheme which will benefit almost 450 million workers, mainly in the unorganised sector. In order to achieve this, the government will attempt to create a corpus through which the benefits will be provided. The benefits include...
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4 kids die due to malnourishment in Rewa, MPHRC asks for report
-Hindustan Times Rewa/ Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has taken cognizance of four malnourishment deaths reported over the last three months in Rewa district. MPHRC has also asked for a detailed report from chief medical and health officer (CMHO), Rewa SK Tripathi on the malnutrition deaths. Three of the children who died were girls. One of them died just a couple of days back.Deaths of 62 children over five months in...
More »SC says jails are overcrowded by 150 %, laments plight of inmates -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu “Fundamental rights and human rights of people, however they may be placed, cannot be ignored only because of their adverse circumstances” Blaming Delhi for paying “little or no attention” to the fundamental rights of under trials and convicts, the Supreme Court said it is “not only tragic but also pathetic” to find that prisons in the national capital, along with half a dozen States across the country, are overcrowded by...
More »Delhi's homeless - remembered only in winter -Bharat Dogra
-TheHoot.org Every winter stories are run about how the homeless need more shelters. During the monsoon and the heat – media silence. On World Homeless Day, BHARAT DOGRA argues for less seasonal coverage The homeless constitute the poorest section of our urban population and they live pretty close to where the media is based. Some of the highest concentrations of homeless people are within a 10 kms radius of the media hub...
More »The salience of the Singur verdict -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A more progressive Central law on land acquisition is now in place, but several States have already either amended the new law or enacted legislation of their own. On August 31, the Supreme Court in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal delivered one of the most momentous decisions of the year. It invalidated the expropriation of land in Singur by the erstwhile Left Front government in Bengal, and...
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