-The Telegraph New delhi: Poor implementation of welfare schemes by the delhi government allowed for conditions in which three sisters - Mansi, 8, Shikha, 4, and Parul, 2 - died of starvation in the national capital last month, a fact-finding report by a group of six activists has found. The team that included Harsh Mander, a former bureaucrat and special commissioner to the Supreme Court for Right to Food cases, found that...
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Attempts Being Made to Dilute Anti-Corruption Laws, AP Shah Writes to Modi -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in The letter by the former delhi chief justice highlights the dangers of decriminalising the Companies Act, introducing electoral bonds, weakening the RTI Act and not implementing of the Lokpal Act and Whistleblowers Protection Act. New delhi: In a letter sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former chief justice of delhi high court and noted rights activist A.P. Shah has lamented that “instead of increasing transparency and accountability and making the deterrents...
More »Call for attention to excluded -Pheroze L Vincent and Basant Mohanty
-The Telegraph New delhi: Academics feel that the ambiguity over the fate of those who might eventually be excluded from the final National Register of Citizens in Assam should be cleared at the earliest. Sanjib Baruah, professor of political science at New York's Bard College, told the Telegraph earlier this week: "With a number like four million people being excluded (from the draft NRC), we need the think beyond the question of...
More »EC seeks to delink voter list from NRC
-The Telegraph New delhi: The Election Commission has said exclusion from the draft National Register of Citizens in Assam doesn't automatically cause disenfranchisement. "The Election Commission of India voter enrolment exercise is independent of the NRC, though they are working in sync," chief election commissioner O.P. Rawat said on Wednesday. The commission will go by three criteria - a voter person needs to be a citizen of India, he or she should be...
More »Arvind Kejriwal government delinks Aadhaar with widow, old age pensions
-TimesNowNews.com The Supreme Court had in March questioned the mandatory use of Aadhaar for drawing pensions by retired state employees. The 12-digit personal identification number is issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India. New delhi: The delhi state government has decided to delink the requirement of an Aadhaar card to access benefits due to widows and pensioners. In a message on Twitter, delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said: “Lot of...
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