-TheWire.in A detailed analysis of India’s growth trajectory, comparing its growth trends with other industrially developed economies across sectors and with other like-minded group of nations. This article, extrapolating our key findings from a recent Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES) research analysis, involves a detailed analysis of India’s growth trajectory over the last three decades comparing its growth trends with other industrially developed economies across sectors like manufacturing, services, banking, etc.,...
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Digital Personal Data Protection Bill skirts key issues -R Suryamurthy
-The Telegraph The older Bill mandated monitoring, testing and certification of hardware devices by the Data Protection Authority The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 did not consider several critical issues such as the regulation of hardware and devices and localisation of data with retrospective effect, which have been opposed by the global tech giants. Abhishek Malhotra (managing partner, TMT Law Practice) said: “The draft Bill has watered down the objective of...
More »India opposes attempt to link action on emissions to farming -Jayashree Nandi and Sharm El Sheikh
-Hindustan Times India on Thursday communicated strong objections to discussions under a special UN FRAmework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) effort known as the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, which has sought to expand efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouses gases to the agriculture sector. According to people aware of the matter, a draft decision under the Koronivia Joint Work mentions mitigation – the efforts to reduce emissions – multiple times. “Noted that...
More »Deliberative democracy -Namrata Jeph and Rajesh Ranjan
-The Telegraph Citizens’ participation in policy-making is an important factor in assessing the quality of democracy Within five days of the announcement of Agnipath, the scheme had been amended 10 times, raising the larger question concerning consultation in policy-making. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government has taken a number of policy decisions without public consultation — from demonetisation, which saw 60 changes in 43 days, to GST, which has been...
More »NGOs demand the right to quality education of migrant children from the govt.
--Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency dated 31st October, 2022 More than 12 organisations and several individuals were part of a national consultation where issues faced by migrant children were discussed and actionable recommendations were proposed. Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi, October 31, 2022: Not-for-profit organisations and civil society institutions have demanded that migrant children be provided the right to quality education immediately and have proposed an actionable FRAmework...
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