-The Hindu Citizens should not be asked to provide the same information more than once to government agencies In June 2014, the Modi government set out to change how the government worked. At that time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in a meeting of Union Secretaries about “reforming the public service delivery system and bridging the governance deficit” by introducing “self-certification” in place of “affidavits”. That event revealed his enthusiasm and commitment...
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India's police force is under stress -Yashovardhan Azad
-Hindustan Times It has been unable to cope with new challenges to public order. Autonomy is the only way out The year 2019 ended on a stressful note for the Indian Police, battling a number of agitations over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) across the country. The police also had to answer an array of questions about that methods of handling the protests. Violent...
More »CAA-NPR-NRC will harm de-notified and nomadic tribes the most -Varsha Torgalkar
-Newsclick.in In Maharashtra, most DNTs don’t have houses or villages, no ID cards or birth or land certificates. Not even burial places. Pune: De-notified and nomadic tribes (DNTs), many of whom still don’t have identity cards, are still unaware of CAA, NRC and NPR (Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register). But activists and academicians from the tribes have begun an awareness drive asking them not to submit...
More »NRC-NPR panic: Google halts Net education outreach in Bengal -Ravik Bhattacharya & Atri Mitra
-The Indian Express The programme aims to empower women in rural India by teaching them how to use Internet in their daily lives. Google claims it has benefited over 30 million women across 20 states so far. Birbhum: THE NPR-NRC panic has had its first casualty on the ground in West Bengal with Google stopping its Internet Saathi programme in the state. This followed a series of incidents since January 10 with...
More »Refrain within BJP: Economy big worry, may spill onto streets -Ravish Tiwari
-The Indian Express The BJP leaders, however, said they hope the Budget may be able to instill some confidence and arrest the current downward slide. While the BJP has publicly ratcheted up heat against CAA-NPR-NRC protests with an eye on Delhi elections, several responsible functionaries within the party and the government privately acknowledge that economic slowdown as the real concern. “The biggest fear is if growth doesn’t pick up, it will spill onto...
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