The Right to Education, in effect since April 1, is set to cost the Centre a staggering 2,31,000 crore over the next five years according to fresh estimates. Previous estimates drawn up by National University of Education Planning & Administration (NUEPA) — the basis of financial planning for the RTE’s provisions so far — had pegged the requirement at Rs 1,71,000 crore. In a note submitted to the Expenditure Finance...
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NAC to meet again on July 1, to take up food Security Bill
The reconstructed National Advisory Council (NAC), headed by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, will consider the food security Bill as its first priority when it meets again next month. At its first meeting held here today, Gandhi’s team decided to meet again on July 1 to discuss the Bill and finalise its recommendations. NAC has also decided to revisit the Communal Violence (prevention) Bill, which has been lying with the...
More »Bhopal panic seeps into Singur Ash from factory with blot on record by Kinsuk Basu and Jayanta Basu
Bhopal cast a pall on Singur today, fed by a cocktail of pollution, panic and politics. A chemical factory, declared a “fit case for closure” by the state pollution control board (PCB) two months ago, spewed carbon soot-laced smoke this dawn. The plant belongs to Himadri Chemicals and Industries, a company with an annual turnover of over Rs 500 crore and said to be the country’s largest manufacturer of coal tar...
More »The curse of the black cat by Radhika Ramaseshan
For us, it was Eveready. During my growing-up years in Bhopal, where my father was posted, the Union Carbide factory was not too far from our place off the railway colony. It was not an object of interest or curiosity because it looked just like the humungous power station opposite our house. Nobody could figure out why it was called Eveready although the plant was set up to make pesticides and...
More »A traffic accident in Bhopal by Karuna Nundy
The Bhopal judgment suggests that were a nuclear disaster to be caused by an operator's negligence, they might be held criminally liable for little more than a traffic accident. The world was watching a trial court in Bhopal on Monday, as the Chief Judicial Magistrate ruled on the criminal responsibility for the gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in 1984. Twenty six years after the event, 178 prosecution witnesses...
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