-Scroll.in The expectation that students will buy devices to receive education at their own cost is contrary to the spirit of the RTE Act. In April 2010, India brought into force the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, acknowledging the state’s responsibility to provide free and compulsory education to all children from the age of six to 14 years. The act was a consequence of Article 21A being...
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Right to Information Act Under Threat as Ten-Year Old ‘Interim’ Order Holds CIC Together -Nipun Arora and Annanya Mehan
-Newsclick.in The threat to right to information is not only from the Government but from within the Central Information Commission (CIC) as well. Several activists and scholars, including former information commissioners, have recently expressed concern over the Government’s dilution of the Right to Information Act (RTI). However, the threat to right to information is not only from the Government but from within the Central Information Commission (CIC) as well. Under the Right to...
More »Viral outrage only spikes the data -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Adverse public reaction to bad coronavirus figures could only end up creating incentives to suppress crucial numbers As the number of cases of COVID-19 in Karnataka and Telangana begins to surge, there is a corresponding urge to affix blame to a cause. This has happened earlier too when there was a rise in cases in other States — evidence that Governments had failed and had shielded numbers finally appeared to...
More »Punjab to recover Rs 223.75 cr from 7 private sugar mills -Ruchika M Khanna and Rajmeet Singh
-The Tribune Subsidy given even when sugar rates soared after fall in 2015 Chandigarh: The Punjab Government today decided to recover Rs 223.75 crore from seven private sugar mills, most of them owned by politicians. This recovery is to be made as land revenue arrears for the largesse extended to them by the previous SAD-BJP Government. A subsidy of Rs 50 per quintal on the State Advised Price (SAP) of Rs 280-Rs 295...
More »Civil society praises Centre’s draft order banning 27 pesticides -Vineet Kumar
-Down to Earth The pesticides in question continue to be used in India, but are already banned, restricted or withdrawn in other countries Several experts underscored the ill effects of using chemicals excessively in agriculture and stressed on ecologically sound alternatives while backing a recent Government draft order to prohibit a bunch of pesticides. Civil society members, citing risks, threats and damage from 27 pesticides, came out in support of a May 14,...
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