-The Indian Express Having lost around 50 per cent male weavers to migration and schemes such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the carpet industry in Bhadohi and surrounding areas now wants women to be TRAIned as weavers. “Women weavers are more likely to stay put at homes, whether they are married or unmarried. So TRAIning them would be good investment,” said secretary All-India Carpet Manufacturers Association, Abdul Hazi. The...
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State’s new poster campaign to boost RTE awareness Neha Pushkarna
While the Delhi government is responsible for implementing the Right to Education Act in the city, its own schools seem to be the worst offenders. Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has received 14,752 complaints since April 1 last year when RTE was enforced. Of these, as many as 12,332 complaints were related to government and MCD schools. These complaints were either received in bulk through NGOs or...
More »All those who dissent have the obligation to listen: Aruna Roy
-Express News Service Maintaining that “the right to dissent” must always be accompanied by the “obligation to listen”, activist Aruna Roy has asked the Anna Hazare-led group to recognise and respect difference of opinions, whether within the civil society groups themselves, or with any other formations. In an interview to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta for NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk programme, Roy, who is a member of the Sonia Gandhi-led...
More »Hazare group's methods annoy Aruna Roy, others by Vidya Subrahmaniam
The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) said on Saturday that while it fully backed anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and his team on their right to agitate for a Jan Lokpal Bill, it had strong reservations over the methods adopted by the group and disagreed with the provisions of their Bill. The NCPRI objected in particular to the ultimatums flowing from Ramlila Maidan — where Mr. Hazare is fasting...
More »State RTI activist claims threat to life by Ramashankar
At a time when protest against corruption is making headlines across the country, crusaders for people’s rights are at the receiving end in Bihar. An RTI activist from Rohtas, Ashok Paswan (49), has allegedly received a threat to his life for seeking information on alleged financial irregularities in disbursement of loans to farmers by a nationalised bank in the district. “I received a call on my mobile around 5.30pm on Friday. The...
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