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Birth certificate single mom's right

-The Telegraph New Delhi: When a single woman or unwed mother applies for her child's birth certificate, it must be issued on the basis of her affidavit and without insisting that she disclose the name of the father, the Supreme Court ruled today. The court also held that an unwed Christian mother could assume the guardianship of her child without issuing prior notice to the father for permission as laid down in...

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Govt okays Rs 950-cr scheme to untangle NPR-Aadhaar mess -Aloke Tikku

-Hindustan Times The government has cleared a Rs 950-crore plan to untangle the Aadhaar-national population register jumble inherited from the UPA government. The census commissioner, tasked with creating NPR, will conduct a nationwide door-to-door survey over the next one year to link the population database with the 12-digit unique identification number, better known as Aadhaar. Home minister Rajnath Singh approved the plan in June-end, sources said. At each stop, enumerators — who will...

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Beti Bachao – India Needs to learn from its Scheduled Tribes (STs)

-Newslaundry.com/ Factly.in India’s declining Child Sex Ratio is setting off alarm bells. But Scheduled Tribes (STs) are far ahead of the Rest of the country when it comes the(CSR) & Sex Ratio. Factly analyses the numbers and takeaways. Whatever be one’s stance on #SelfieWith Daughter, there is no denying the fact that a Child Sex Ratio  (CSR) of 918 is abysmal  – and it’s time to get our act together.  While the...

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SECC reveals two Indias, but government refuses to disclose caste data -Iftikhar Gilani

-DNA OBCs make upto 66.48% of the total 17.92 crore rural households – much higher than 54% decided by the Mandal Commission in 1980 Even as the Union government shied away from releasing the caste data collected in 2011, the rural socio-economic survey data put out on Friday speaks of two Indias – that of the affluent and the poor. Around 73 % of the country's people live in villages, with the...

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Tribal alienation in an unequal India -Mihir Shah

-The Hindu Thanks to the caste system, India has always been an unequal society. What is even more worrying is that inequality appears to have deepened in the past two decades The Boston Consulting Group’s 15th annual report, “Winning the Growth Game: Global Wealth 2015”, has received extensive coverage in the Indian media. The report comes on top of the Global Wealth Databook 2014 from Credit Suisse, which provides a much more...

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