-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A special CBI court on Friday convicted former coal secretary H C Gupta and others in a case pertaining to the allocation of a coal block to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Limited (KSSPL). Gupta is the first secretary-rank officer to be convicted in a case pertaining to coal block allocation. Special CBI judge Bharat Parashar also convicted the coal ministry's former joint secretary K S Kropha...
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Delayed notification, non-uniformity in rules may dilute RERA: Icra
-PTI RERA Act would bring about a paradigm shift in the way the real estate industry operates Even as the Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) comes into effect, delay in issuing notification and non-uniformity of rules across the states may dilute its effective implementation, says the rating agency Icra. The Act would bring about a paradigm shift in the way the real estate industry operates and improve the level of transparency and Accountability...
More »Modi Government's Tech Fetish is Diluting MGNREGA's Accountability -Siraj Dutta
-TheWire.in Most technocratic interventions introduced in MGNREGA appear to be designed to aid administrators rather than for actually helping workers. In his 2017-18 Budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley asserted with great conviction that the ruling dispensation’s “initiative to geo-tag all MGNREGA assets” to put them “in public domain has established greater transparency”. In 2016-17, the rural development ministry started an initiative called ‘GeoMGNREGA’, under which it was proposed that all assets created under...
More »Explore law for NGOs' fund usage: SC to Centre -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Determined to fix Accountability for lakhs of NGOs that received government grants of more than Rs 6,600 crore between 2002 and 2009, the Supreme Court asked the Centre on Wednesday to explore the desirability of a new law to regulate fund utilisation by the bodies. "Whatever be the method, we are clear that NGOs and voluntary organisations must give audited accounts of utilisation of funds received...
More »Tough norms for NGOs seeking government funds -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Draft guidelines outlining stringent regulations intended to enhance Accountability of lakhs of NGOs and voluntary organisations receiving nearly Rs 1,000 crore of government grants every year were submitted by the Centre to the Supreme Court on Wednesday . The guidelines may seem exhaustive for most NGOs and VOs as they said organisations wanting to get government funds must register afresh online with Niti Aayog's `NGO-Darpan' portal...
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