An inconvenient truth? Or yet another case of shoddy data collection by state agencies? The government is scrambling to prove that it is the latter, after data on the UPA's flagship poverty alleviation programme shows that it may not be reaching its intended beneficiaries, those classified in official-speak as below the poverty line (BPL). A recent note circulated to all state departments by the rural development ministry revealed that only...
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Cabinet clears Food Security Bill
-Express News Service In a major step towards fulfilling the ruling Congress’s poll promise, the Union Cabinet today cleared the National Food Security Bill that seeks to provide legal entitlement of foodgrain to 75 per cent of the rural population and up to 50 per cent of the urban population. The Bill seeks to divide the eligible households into two broad categories — priority and general — wherein the “priority” group will...
More »PPP model in power distribution opposed by Meena Menon
Maharashtra says it could go against existing franchisee norms Power distribution utilities of three States including Maharashtra have objected to the proposed suggestions by a sub-group of the Task Force on Private Participation in the Power Sector of the Planning Commission. They feel the proposals could go against existing franchisee norms in the States and skew the tariff. The sub-group had been pushing for Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) in the distribution of electricity as...
More »GoI refuses to furnish Kashmir interlocutors' report to RTI activist
-KashmirDispatch.com The government of India has refused to furnish a copy of Kashmir interlocutors' report to a top Right To Information (RTI) campaigner in Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir RTI movement convener, Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat had sought a copy of interlocutor' report, but the Ministry of Home Affairs denied the request. The application for the report was filed by Dr Bhat on November 17, 2011 under the RTI Act 2005 of...
More »Not just tribal adults, even kids turn bonded labourers by Yogesh Pawar
Viju Diwa is barely 11. So it seems strange to see him carrying bricks on his head. “He is not a labourer here,” Kisan Mhatre, a brick kiln owner of Mharal village outside Mumbai’s far northern suburb of Kalyan protests and shouts at his father and worker Arjun, 30. “They push their children into labour and then the government, the media and everyone comes to trouble us,” says Mhatre. When this DNA...
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