In a big boost to Public Health System, the government approved hiring of more than 53500 male health workers for all the Sub Health Centers (SHC) in 235 high focus districts from the point of view of disease control. The total costs for providing the male health workers on contract at the 53,544 SHCs in the 235 high focus districts would be Rs. 385.52 crores per year and the central...
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Top IIT officials penalised for delay in providing information
The Central Information Commission has imposed a penalty of Rs 15,000 on senior officials of IIT-Kharagpur for delay in providing information to a professor of the Institute. The transparency panel has also directed the engineering institute to pay a compensation of Rs 5,000 to Professor Rajeev Kumar for the loss and detriment suffered by him. "For two simple and straightforward queries, the complainant had to wait for almost five months.This may...
More »Policing the police by Moyna
Surprise was in store for Sushil Kaushik when in 1989 he first joined duty as a constable in Serkot in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district. He had no idea how corrupt police officials can be. He saw policemen taking bribes, and superiors deducting constables’ salaries without giving any explanation. Kaushik questioned his bosses on the irregularities he came across. In Serkot his colleagues would take bribes from villagers who brought fire-wood...
More »Shivraj Singh Chouhan, CM of Madhya Pradesh interviewed by Shriya Mohan
Why is Madhya Pradesh ranked so low in the Millennium Development Goals like child and maternal mortality, extreme poverty, hunger and safe drinking water? Social sector allocation has increased only during the last few years. Before 2005, there wasn’t enough money allocated to it when compared to poverty alleviation schemes. Also, it takes time for the benefits of the allocations to reach people and for real change to manifest itself....
More »India Steadily Increases Its Lead in Road Fatalities by Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar
India lives in its villages, Gandhi said. But increasingly, the people of India are dying on its roads. India overtook China to top the world in road fatalities in 2006 and has continued to pull steadily ahead, despite a heavily agrarian population, fewer people than China and far fewer cars than many Western countries. While road deaths in many other big emerging markets have declined or stabilized in recent years,...
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