Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's offer to face the Public Accounts Committee over spectrum scam appears to be a last-minute idea to rebuff the perception about UPA being mired in corruption, after Sonia Gandhi made a strong pitch for probity at the plenary on Sunday. After the PM created a buzz with his PAC offer, there was speculation that it was an idea which struck late. The offer for PAC came in...
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Protest against ‘happy farmer' advertisement in Karnataka by Muralidhara Khajane
The farmer in picture committed suicide 18 months ago An advertisement released by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka in its campaign for the coming taluk and zilla elections has put it in a spot. The advertisement, published in some Kannada newspapers on December 19, shows a ‘happy' farmer harvesting sugarcane and another driving a tractor. It claims that the “doors of his fortune opened after the BJP came to...
More »Those other problems in Andhra Pradesh by P Sainath
If present political trends and shifts in Andhra Pradesh intensify, the State could see an election within a year. And not just over Telangana. When Chandrababu Naidu sits on a hunger fast for suffering farmers, you know something is afoot in Andhra Pradesh. Excessive rains have devastated the crops in the State. And losses have been enormous. But a farmer losing over Rs.15,000 on an acre of paddy will get less...
More »Amendments proposed, RTI rules likely to be more people-friendly by Anindo Dey
The withdrawal on the limitation of number of words when asking for information, restructuring of fees, halting provisions to withdraw an appeal under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, are some of the amendments in the RTI rules that have been adopted by the Working Group on Transparency, Accountability and Governance under the National Advisory Council (NAC). These amendments are likely to be placed before a full house of the...
More »32 sq km forest cover lost to dam construction on Narmada
Madhya Pradesh has lost 32 sq km of forest cover due to the dam construction, especially on the river Narmada. "Though Madhya Pradesh had a forest cover of 95,411 sq km, the largest in the country, we lost 32 sq km of it due to dams constructed in the state, especially on Narmada ," Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Sartaj Singh said. The Minister said the agencies pay compensation for deforestration to the...
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