-The Hindu Business Line Threaten to stop deliveries if system not in place by month-end The Government may have to take some quick decisions if it wants smooth delivery of domestic LPG cylinders. The All India LPG Distributors’ Federation today said that if the Government and the oil marketing companies fail to come up with a proper enforcement mechanism by the month-end, then effective October 1, the distributors would be left with no...
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70% migrants to Mumbai are from Maharashtra -Madhavi Rajadhyaksha
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Contrary to MNS chief Raj Thackeray's ongoing tirade, migrants to cities like Mumbai are not 'outsiders' from other states. Nearly 70% of them come from rural or urban areas within Maharashtra itself, reveals an analysis of data from the National Sample Survey Organization's (NSSO) 64th round. For every migrant coming to a city in Maharashtra from the urban areas of other states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh...
More »Government to ban tonsuring of mentally ill, patients to wear their own clothes -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India Compulsory tonsuring, a common practice on patients of mental illnesses, is all set to be banned. When admitted in any mental institute, such patients will wear their personal clothes and not be forced to wear uniforms provided by the establishment. Now, menstrual care of women mental illness patients will be taken care by the institute Mental homes will need to have facilities for leisure, recreation, education and religious practices...
More »Information commissions need judicial members: apex court-Anuja
-Live Mint CIC suspends hearings to seek govt’s opinion; RTI activists criticize the move, saying it could lead to delays The Supreme Court said on Thursday that information commissions at the central and state levels should have two-person benches, with one person being a “judicial member” and the other an “expert member”. That prompted the Central Information Commission (CIC) to suspend hearings to enable it to seek the government’s opinion and led to...
More »NAC panel drafts pre-legislative process-Anuja
-Live Mint The Sonia Gandhi -led National Advisory Council (NAC) may be moving closer to formulating a pre-legislative process that will involve a thorough, time-bound discussion of Bills before they become law. “The need for such a policy of consultation is necessary to evolve from a representative democracy to a participatory, deliberative democracy, particularly for accountability to the people in the formulation of law and policy,” said the draft recommendation of NAC’s working...
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