PANAJI: Bombay High Court on Monday asked the union government to file an affidavit as to whether top constitutional offices such as the President, Chief Justices and Governors fall within the ambit of Right To Information Act. The Goa bench of Bombay High Court asked Additional Solicitor General, Vivek Tankha, who represented the Union, to state the legal position regarding the President of India, Chief Justices and Governors; while state...
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SATYANANAD MISHRA CHIEF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER IN WALK THE TALK WITH SHEKHAR GUPTA
In a season when every self-styled warrior against corruption is trying to look for a new weapon to fight it, my guest today is Satyananda Mishra, Chief Information Commissioner—someone who has in his control the strongest of those weapons, the RTI. Actually when it all began, nobody thought it would be so effective. In a period of five-and-a-half years, it has touched the hearts and minds of people. The number of...
More »State never felt need for rights body- by Sukhbir Siwach
CHANDIGARH: The people in Haryana have not seen State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) despite the fact that two Union home ministers, Indrajit Gupta and L K Advani, and two chairpersons of National Human Rights Commission personally took up the matter with different chief ministers of the state in the past 17 years. Initially, the state government even ignored the letters of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Then its chairperson Ranganath...
More »Mapping reveals Pune district needs another 200 schools
Pune : The state government’s exercise to map schools in the state to determine distribution as per population to make it easier to determine the number of schools and where they should be located to suit the Right to Education (RTE) Act targets has completed the second stage. As per the survey released on Monday, Pune district needs around 200 more schools as of now. There is a need of around...
More »Urbanization: it’s happening, can we cope?- Anil Padmanabhan
Last week, the census commissioner released the second round of data, which showed that the move towards towns and cities received a fresh impetus in the decade ended 2011, as a result of which the country achieved a laudable milestone: a little under one in three Indians now lives in areas classified as urban, reversing a lull apparent in the previous two decades. This is something to be welcomed as in...
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