In a big embarrassment to the Centre and Delhi government ahead of the Commonwealth Games, a committee appointed by the Delhi High Court has said that workers at Games-related construction sites were not being paid minimum wages and were being made to work overtime for no extra money. The four-member committee was set up to inquire into allegations levelled in a PIL which said conditions of workers at construction sites...
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Indian farmers battle against nuclear plant by Zubair Ahmed
Some 350km (220 miles) from India's commercial capital, Mumbai, lies the village of Madban overlooking the vast expanse of the Arabian Sea. It is in this village that a 10,000 megawatt nuclear power plant is proposed - and farmers and fishermen, backed by campaigners, are hardening their stance against it. People from Madban believe the project will cause havoc to the environment and to their livelihoods. Stunning beauty Pravin Gavhankar, a...
More »Revenue share from sand for dam areas
Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has rolled out a road map for utilising revenue from sand mined from dams. He has announced a proposal to make special provision for the development of areas around the dams as a compensation for the hardship they undergo owing to the mining and related activities. Replying to a debate on the Appropriation Bill on the supplementary demands for grants worth Rs.3,400 crore in the Assembly...
More »More time to seek higher land price by Samanwaya Rautray
The Supreme Court has clarified that land-losers can challenge the compensation awarded by a collector within six months of “coming to know of it” to avoid “unreasonable discrimination”. Till now, an application for higher compensation had to be filed within six months of the collector announcing the award. The ruling came on appeals filed by some Uttar Pradesh villagers against a high court judgment that rejected their plea for a review. Permitting the...
More »Draft food security bill may irk Sonia, states, SC by Nitin Sethi
The government has readied the draft of its promised Food Security Act but the bare provisions appear to fall short of the pledge on many counts. It could not only trigger a face-off with the states but also cause heartburn to the Supreme Court and displease Congress chief Sonia Gandhi who had prepared a draft and sent it to the Prime Minister's Office last June. The Bill is a result...
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