-The Hindu With an RTI application revealing that former Union Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar had written to the Prime Minister's Office as early as September 2007 warning of impending disaster in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games, NGO Hazards Centre has criticised the Union Government for not acting upon it and conducting an inquiry. Mr. Aiyar wrote the letter after studying a report prepared by the Hazards Centre on expenditure,...
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Disability must be seen as a development issue, says report by Claire Provost
The first global report on disability reveals how the exclusion of 1 billion people – invisible in official statistics and absent from aid budgets – is holding back development progress The UN millennium development goals (MDGs) may not be met by 2015 unless urgent action is taken to address the needs of people with disabilities, according to the first world report on disability. More than 1 billion people live with a disability,...
More »Thus Spake Hammurabi by Saikat Datta, Anuradha Raman
As the Lokpal Bill gets mired in a tortuous birthing, the debate shifts to who exactly has the right to pass a law Why Politicians Hate Civil Society * Unelected activists stealing Parliament’s right to make laws, undercutting role of parliamentarians * Demands like an all-powerful Lokpal directly impact political-bureaucratic class and the status quo * Rigid deadlines, fasts unto death to press home issues are akin to holding government...
More »Battle over the Anti-Violence Bill by John Dayal
Victims have not forgotten the following brutal tragedies in the life of independent India, even if the State and political parties may pretend to have. 1984—Delhi: On October 31, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in revenge for ‘Operation Bluestar’. For the next three days, as Doordarshan telecast the lying in state of her body, over 3000 Sikhs—men and boys—were burnt alive while policemen, politicians and...
More »Land Acquisition: Government as a Facilitator is the Best Option by Diptendra Raychaudhuri
When it was almost certain that the governments of the country were to take their hands off from total acquisition of land for a private project, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has started thinking otherwise. The thought went out for hundred per cent acquisition by the government. Had this come at the germinal stage of discussion about changes in the colonial Act, it could have resulted in Mamata Banerjee’s face...
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