-PTI NEW DELHI: More than 200 central and state government websites publicly displayed details such as names and addresses of some Aadhaar beneficiaries, the Unique Identification Authority of India has said. The Aadhaar issuing body added, in response to an RTI query, that it took note of the breach and got the data removed from those websites. It did not specify when the breach took place. It said Aadhaar details have never been made...
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In Response To RTI, RBI Says Sharing Details Of Demonetisation Process May Hurt Country's Economic Interests -Ashwini Srivastava
-Outlook Six months after the announcement of demonetisation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the RBI has declined to share details of the note ban process, saying it would be detrimental to the country's economic interests. Replying to an RTI query, the central bank said disclosing such details may impede future economic or fiscal policies of Government of India. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was asked to provide a copy of the minutes...
More »Mihir Shah Committee report recommends a paradigm shift in water management
Against the backdrop of drought that affected most states in the past 2 years, it is essential to take a look at a report on improving water governance in the country, which was submitted to the Ministry of Water Resources in July, 2016. That report, which was prepared by the Committee on Restructuring the Central Water Commission (CWC) and Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) under the chairpersonship of Dr. Mihir...
More »India is finally trying to clear the air around its controversial GDP numbers -Madhura Karnik
-Scroll.in / qz.com The government has set up five committees to review data to calculate major indicators such as the GDP, IIP and inflation. More than 19 months after the statistical tumult began over India’s GDP, the Narendra Modi government is finally trying to fix the mess. India’s GDP numbers have been receiving flak since a new calculation was introduced in January 2015. Overnight, India’s GDP growth accelerated from 4.7% to 6.9%. It...
More »A Lawless Law -Rajshree Chandra
-The Indian Express Preventive detention is being routinised as an instrument of state repression The recent preventive detention (PD) of Khurram Parvez, a Kashmiri human rights activist, and Jignesh Mewani, a Dalit leader from Gujarat, has turned the spotlight on the provision of PD and the purposes it is being made to serve. National Crime Records Bureau data released in September 2015 indicate that over 3,200 people were being held in administrative...
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