-The Hindustan Times The complexion of the 16th Lok Sabha, borne out of the most decisive mandate in 30 years, looks like a mixed bag of milestones. First up, the lower house will have the highest number of women lawmakers. On most other counts of demography, it still needs to shape up. The average asset of an MP has more than doubled from about Rs. 6 crore to Rs. 14 core in...
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Why India has woken up to the importance of toilets -Sumit Mishra
-Live Mint Building toilets holds the key to reducing India's malnutrition burden Commenting on the Indian elections in his satire show, British humorist John Oliver remarked, "(Narendra) Modi has managed to inspire people with his populist platform including a pledge to put a toilet in every home. That's a bold move, coming out as pro-toilet." Oliver's wisecrack may have deliberately exaggerated Narendra Modi's pitch on toilets but the focus on sanitation has been...
More »RTE not applicable to minority schools: SC -Satya Prakash
-The Hindustan Times Minority-run schools cannot be forced to implement the Right to Education Act, 2009, that mandates 25% Reservation for economically disadvantaged children in all schools, the Supreme Court ruled. A five-judge constitution bench headed by CJI RM Lodha clarified that a 2010 judgement, which held that the RTE Act, 2009 was applicable to aided minority schools was "not correct". "In our view, if the 2009 Act is made applicable to minority...
More »Women in Party Politics -Shamika Ravi and Rohan Sandhu
-Brookings India Working Paper The Women's Reservation Bill, which proposes to reserves 33 per cent of seats in Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies for women, has been doing the rounds of Indian Parliament in various forms since it was first introduced by the Deve Gowda government in 1996, failing each time, to pass. But during all these years that political parties have been passing the buck for their comprehensive failure...
More »SC upholds constitutional validity of RTE Act-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutional validity of Articles 15(5) and 21-A of the Constitution in so far as it relates to unaided educational institutions to provide compulsory education for children in the age group of 6 to 14 years. A five-judge Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice R.M. Lodha and Justices A.K. Patnaik, Dipak Misra, S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Ibrahim Kalifulla also upheld the provisions of the Right of...
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