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Expand the food safety net without any more delay -Reetika Khera

-The Hindu Expanding PDS coverage to account for the increase in population since 2011 is a no-brainer; the Government’s resistance to implementing a Supreme Court of india direction is baffling The National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, through the Public Distribution System (PDS), provides a crucial safety net for roughly 800 million people. Even critics of the PDS appreciated its services during the COVID-19 lockdown. The humanitarian crisis resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown,...

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Govt seeks to turn tables on collegium -R Balaji

-The Telegraph Centre said it had conveyed its stand on the points raised by the two-judge bench to the secretary-general of the apex court in a letter dated July 11, 2017, but had not received any response New Delhi: The Centre has sought to blame the delays in judges’ appointments, for which the Supreme Court has repeatedly reprimanded it, on the collegium itself. The government invoked observations by a two-judge bench in 2017...

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SC raps Centre again over judges appointments, criticism of Collegium -Utkarsh Anand

-Hindustan Times The Centre and the top court have exchanged several sharp comments on the collegium system. The Supreme Court on Thursday yet again pulled up the Centre over delays in judges' appointments as it stressed that the government must follow the collegium system, which is the law of the land. The court asked Attorney General R Venkataramani to advise Union Ministers to exercise control over their public criticism of the collegium...

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Slow wheel: Editorial on the complicated bail process of undertrial prisoners

-The Telegraph It has been estimated that 76% of all prisoners in India — 371,848 in absolute numbers — are undertrials Days after the Indian president, Droupadi Murmu, highlighted the plight of poor and tribal undertrials languishing in jails for petty crimes despite getting bail, the Supreme Court has sought details of such prisoners for formulating a national scheme for their release. This is timely. It has been estimated that 76% of...

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Supreme Court asks Centre what steps it has taken to ensure every migrant labourer gets food -Kanu Sarda

-India Today  ‘It is the duty of the Central government to ensure food grains under the NFSA reach the last man. We are not saying that the Centre is not doing anything,’ the bench said. The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to clarify what steps it had taken so far to ensure that every migrant labourer in this country gets food. A bench led by Justice MR Shah told Additional Solicitor...

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