-The Hindu BHUBANESWAR: Odisha is sitting on mountains of pending litigations and court cases as its judicial system grapples with large scale vacancies. The State government on Tuesday said it required at least 391 judicial officers in addition to sanctioned judicators’ posts in High Court and lower courts to clear pending cases. As against requirement of further 50 per cent increase in strength, five out of 27 sanctioned judges’ posts in Orissa High...
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Labour reforms: Talks fail, unions to strike on Sept 2
-Hindustan Times Central trade union leaders on Wednesday refused to withdraw their nationwide strike call for September 2 to protest against proposed labour reforms, after their meeting with a group of ministers (GoM) failed to make any headway. The GoM, headed by finance minister Arun Jaitley, will meet the union leaders again on Thursday to break the logjam and deliberate on their demands, senior labour ministry officials told HT. The 12-point charter of...
More »'Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage'
-The Times of India LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. "When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions," Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti...
More »Food Security: Bihar on the Move -Jean Drèze, Reetika Khera & Jessica Pudussery
-Economic and Political Weekly Bihar’s public distribution system used to be one of the worst in India, but the system has improved significantly from 2011 onwards. The National Food Security Act, backed early on by the political leadership, enabled the state to include the bulk of the rural population in this improved system. However, there is still a long way to go in ensuring that the system is reliable, transparent and...
More »NITI Aayog against free health care, bats for more private sector role -Nitin Sethi
-Business Standard Wants the draft National Health Policy revised yet again to include its ideas The NITI Aayog has objected to increasing investments and focusing on the public health sector as well as providing free drugs and diagnostics, as suggested in the updated draft National Health Policy of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. Asking for a revision, it has recommended that the private sector and insurance-based models be given a greater role...
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