The Prime Minister's focus on double-digit growth is not due to any ‘growth mania'. It is for the benefit of the poor. At a recent function for police officers, the Prime Minister observed: “If we don't control Naxalism, we have to say goodbye to our country's ambition to sustain a growth rate of 10 to 11 per cent per annum.” Some commentators (like Prof Prabhat Patnaik of JNU) interpret this (in a...
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Local initiatives by S Dorairaj
THE Tamil Nadu government introduced with much fanfare the samathuva mayanam (common graveyard) concept during the previous Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam regime with the proclaimed goal of ending all caste-based discrimination at burial-cum-cremation grounds. An official announcement was made that panchayats which set up samathuva mayanams would get an “incentive grant” of Rs.1 lakh for promoting communal harmony. A few panchayats had received the incentive when the government appeared to beat a hasty...
More »No mid-day meal funds, so Punjab teachers spend own money
For several months now, Punjab government schools have not received money for the mid-day meal scheme. Teachers have been spending from their own pockets or buying rations on credit to feed the children. The Education department has attributed the delay in payment to non-release of funds by the Finance department. In Bakhtra village in Sangrur, teachers say they are buying food because the people who send their children to school are very...
More »FCI paid Rs 4.27 cr extra to govt for gunny bags, says audit report by Raakhi Jagga
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) paid additional Rs 4.27 crore to the state government in 2008-09 and 2009-10 towards gunny bags for procurement of paddy. This has been revealed in the latest audit report procured by the Council of RTI Activists through the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Council president Rohit Sabharwal and general secretary Arvind Sharma said though the audit department had asked the FCI to get this payment...
More »Security forces running riot in Dantewada? by Supriya Sharma
Nearly a year after Tadmetla in Dantewada hit national headlines with the massacre of 76 CRPF jawans, grief-stricken villagers in Dantewada alleged that security forces burnt down more than two hundred homes, sexually assaulted a woman and took away two men on March 16. Tadmetla has been scorched and reduced to rubble by the police, they said. In detailed and gruesome accounts given to journalists, the tribals alleged that five days...
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