-Hindustan Times India has the largest population of modern slaves in the world with more than 18 million people trapped as Bonded labourers, forced beggars, sex workers and child soldiers, a global survey report said on Monday. The Global Slavery Index by human rights organisation Walk Free Foundation said the number was 1.4% of India’s population, the fourth highest among 167 countries with the largest proportion of slaves. “Existing research suggests all forms...
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Draft bill on transgenders’ rights sent to law ministry
-Hindustan Times The social justice and empowerment ministry has decided to go ahead with a bill which seeks to provide recognition to transgenders and protect their rights despite other ministries “failing” to send their comments on it during the inter-ministerial consultation process. It has sent the draft bill on the ‘Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2016’ to the law ministry for finalisation before it is sent to the cabinet for approval. “The draft...
More »In Gujarat, only 530 doctors served in rural areas in 5 years
-PTI AHMEDABAD: Out of more than 4,300 MBBS students who passed out from state-run medical colleges between 2009 and 2014 in Gujarat, only 530 served in government-run hospitals in rural areas for three years as per the Bond they have to sign at the time of admission. According to the data tabled in the Gujarat assembly recently, the state government has collected more than Rs 15.68 crore from those MBBS students who...
More »The money-spinning black sheep of Kuruba families -Sudhirendar Sharma
-The Hindu Business Line The wool of this north Karnataka breed has helped the herder community handcraft a crorepati business These sheep, strikingly black, have a rich coat of coarse wool that has long provided the army and police force with a steady supply of warm blankets. Called Deccani, the lambs are sheared twice a year, each of them yielding a little over one kg of raw wool, which is ideal for...
More »Ashok Gulati, chair professor for agriculture at ICRIER, interviewed by Jahnavi Sen (The Wire)
-TheWire.in This year’s Union Budget markets itself as a pro-poor and pro-farmer budget. To take a closer and harder look at this, The Wire spoke to Ashok Gulati, chair professor for agriculture at ICRIER. Gulati tells The Wire why this budget is insignificant for reducing farmers’ distress, in spite of all the talk. Edited excerpts from the interview follow: * How much is the actual increase in the total allocation to agriculture...
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