-Press statement by Right to Food Campaign dated 2nd July, 2018 Since 2014, people of Jharkhand have faced severe attacks on their mere right to life by the Raghuvar Das led BJP government. The government has been trying to acquire land of Adivasis and Moolvasis against their wishes that will directly affect their livelihoods. On the other hand, there is also a direct attack on the people’s Freedom to religion leading...
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A broken tax chain -Arun Kumar
-The Hindu The GST’s faulty design has prevented the economy from benefiting fully from the indirect tax regime A year ago, at a special midnight session in Parliament, the launch of the goods and services tax (GST) was heralded as the new Freedom. A year on, what has the GST achieved? ? One should not expect instant results. There will be many short comings when a complex reform is rolled out. But...
More »Under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's village faces neglect -Siraj Qureshi
-IndiaToday.in Agra: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed charge four years ago, he declared that the development of villages was top on his priorities. For this, he asked all BJP MPs to adopt at least one village in their constituency under the 'Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana', even urging the lawmakers from other parties to follow the suit. However, none of the villages adopted by about 400 MPs of BJP, can claim to be...
More »Farmers' organisations seek enactment of Freedom from Debt Bill, Guaranteed Fair and Remunerative Prices Bill -Joe C Mathew
-IndiaToday.in New Delhi: All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), a coalition of 193 farmers' organisations from across the country, will lobby for the enactment of two private bills - Farmers' Freedom from Debt Bill and Guaranteed Fair and Remunerative Prices Bill - to ensure comprehensive debt relief to farmers and remunerative prices for the farm produce in the forthcoming session of the Parliament. The Bills, submitted by Parliamentarians Raju Shetti and...
More »Aruna Roy, social activist and Magsaysay Award winner, interviewed by G Sampath
-The Hindu The social activist whose new book on the RTI is just out, worries about the doublespeak in politics today, where rhetoric and substance never match The past couple of months have been hectic for Aruna Roy. The social activist and Magsaysay Award winner has been travelling across the country to promote her book, The RTI Story: Power to the People, which came out in April. After waiting more than a...
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