-The Times of India The national project to give unique identity numbers to all Indians, and enable welfare payments electronically, is now facing a snub from the very part of the government that funds it, and has been its most staunch supporter so far: The finance ministry. Two moves initiated by the banking division in the finance ministry over the past three months appear to duplicate and bypass the work being done...
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Govt’s bid to widen tax base comes unstuck-Rajeev Deshpande
The government's efforts to widen the tax base are not paying off. New tax payers added over the past three years show a decline, while a staggering 89% of existing assessees are bunched in the lowest income bracket of Rs 5 lakh or less a year. Numbers point to a worrying trend the government would want to reverse as while 17,84,709 assessees were added in 2008-09, the figure slid to 16,75,069...
More »Girl child Cash sop in dowry storm-Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times The National Advisory Council (NAC) has cast serious doubts on the government's Cash-incentive scheme to check female foeticide and correct India's skewed sex ratio, saying the money given out under the plan is indirectly promoting dowry. The Centre and 13 states have been offering Cash incentives to poor families with the twin aim of saving the girl child and supporting her after she turns 18. The scheme was introduced...
More »Call to stem dipping sex ratio-Radhika Ramaseshan
The National Advisory Council has asked the Centre to formulate a national policy to stem the declining sex ratio at birth that it believed was “located at the complex interface of the status of women in Indian society, patriarchal social mores and prejudice, spread and misuse of medical technology and the changing aspirations of urban and rural society”. The council’s draft recommendations — prepared by members Farah Naqvi and A.K. Shiva...
More »RTI activist gives ‘bribe’ CD to Speaker
-The Hindustan Times A Right to Information activist has submitted a video CD to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, in which a BJP Lok Sabha MP has been allegedly shown receiving Cash and in return promising land to a private party. RTI activist Dev Ashish Bhattacharya submitted the controversial “Cash-on-camera” CD, to the Speaker on April 27 and sought an impartial probe into the matter. He requested the Speaker to reopen the...
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