-The Hindu Existing laws on juvenile justice, bonded labour and POCSO sufficient, say experts. The emphasis on criminalisation and policing instead of welfare measures in the new proposed anti-trafficking Bill makes it anti-migrants and anti-sex workers, warn experts. The Ministry of Women and Child Development recently placed the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021, in the public domain and sought stakeholders' comments till July 14. The Bill is also scheduled...
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India Needs Employment Generation, Not Population Control -Deepankar Basu
-TheWire.in India is on its way to completing its demographic transition. It should stop fretting about the population problem. Instead, it needs to invest massively in education and health and provide stable, well-paying jobs. In recent weeks, the enormity of India’s “population problem” seems to have suddenly gripped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership. Following the lead of Assam, the state of Uttar Pradesh has also started preparations for introducing a population control...
More »Modi government's decision to privatise United India Insurance indicates terrible consequences for general insurance sector -V Sridhar
-Frontline.TheHindu.com THE Narendra Modi government’s penchant for indulging in ambushes as a means of unleashing policies is now all too obvious. Policies whether relating to vaccines or privatisation of key economic entities have been marked by bizarre U-turns, abrupt changes or abandonment of previously announced approaches. The idea of policies seems to be to instil shock and awe, logic and rectitude be damned. A striking case in point is the government’s...
More »Did the Modi government give Parliament dubious data on media ads? -Ayush Tiwari
-Newslaundry.com The data shows NewsX, News Nation and India News got more ad money than Republic and Times Now. But numbers released under the RTI Act tell another story. In February this year, the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, or DAVP, released data on the Narendra Modi government’s advertisement expenditure in the media. It shows that Republic TV and Times Now, the two most watched English news channels, received fewer government ads...
More »Explained: Why India Is Protesting EU's 'Carbon Border Tax' -Nikhil Ghanekar
-IndiaSpend.com While the EU says such a tax is essential to push industries to control greenhouse gas emissions, India claims this targets developing countries unfairly. New Delhi: Last week, Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar opposed the European Union's (EU) plan to levy an additional 'carbon border tax' on imports from countries such as India that do not have strict norms for controlling industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Earlier, on March 10, 2021, the...
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