-The Hindu The Comptroller and Auditor-General’s report on the allocation of coal blocks, reviews how it took seven-and-half years to move the allocation procedure for captive coal blocks from a discretionary procedure to competitive bidding that was demonstrably transparent. It turns out that the process began within six weeks of UPA-I coming to power in 2004. Ironically, the amendment to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Act rules for auction...
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Nine of ten, unemployable
-The Business StaNDArd No movement yet on quality control in higher education The state of professional higher education in India is abysmal. Consider engineering. All told, there are 1.5 million engineering seats in the country. Almost a third of these are unfilled, so about a million engineers are produced every year. Yet, barely 10 per cent of them are readily employable. About a quarter don’t know enough English to make sense...
More »Sulabh International comes to the rescue of VriNDAvan widows-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu It was exactly a year ago that The Hindu wrote about the plight of abandoned and destitute women, particularly widows, who take shelter in VriNDAvan, prompting the National Legal Services Authorities (NALSA) to take action. It filed a social justice litigation before the Supreme Court for ameliorating the pitiable condition of these women and directing the District Legal Services Authority of Mathura to conduct a survey of these destitute...
More »Centre putting Lokpal Bill in cold storage: Nitish Kumar
-PTI Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on MoNDAy accused the UPA government of putting Lokpal Bill in cold storage and said the Centre's intention on the issue is not "pious and pure". Kumar, who was speaking to newsmen, supported Anna Hazare's movement saying it has raised an issue of public interest and it is for the Centre to take a decision on Lokpal. Referring to his recent meeting with senior BJP leader Murli...
More »Low monsoon rains in India means less rice for the world in 2012–UN agency
-The United Nations The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today that global rice paddy production for 2012 is expected to be lower than originally expected, owing to below-normal monsoon rains in India. The July 2012 issue of the Rice Market Monitor, released by FAO today, says that production is expected to total 724.5 million tonnes &NDAsh; a 7.8 million tonne downward revision compared to the original forecast in April....
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