Even as the area around Parliament was swamped by crowds of Anna Hazare's supporters, demanding a stronger Lokpal Bill on Wednesday, a small group of Environmental activists staged their own demonstration against a different bill, the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill, 2011. Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was scheduled to introduce the controversial BRAI Bill in the Lok Sabha, but the House did not conduct regular business due...
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A good Bill that disappoints by Ramaswamy R Iyer
One started reading the new Draft National Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 with expectations of a great improvement over the 2007 Bills. There are indeed some very good features in the new Bill but, on the whole, one must regretfully report disappointment. Let us see how the Bill deals with some of the key issues involved. (i) Acquisition of agricultural land: The Bill rules out the acquisition, not...
More »Posco: Green ministry ignored own objections by Nitin Sethi
Through every stage of Environmental clearance, the Prime Minister's Office and the finance ministry tracked the Rs 54,000-crorePosco integrated steel plant with keen interest even as the Environment ministry sidestepped its own reservations to let the project pass, records with TOI show. The records accessed from the Environment ministry do not show any interference from the two quarters but the PMO and the finance ministry followed the case from 2007...
More »Only 19 projects were denied green clearance from 2008 to Aug 2011 by Nitin Sethi
Are Environmental clearances delaying industrial development in the country? Some in the government might claim so and argue for further easing of green norms but government data shows otherwise. In the past three years, the rate of rejection of projects for Environmental clearance was an insignificant 1.13%. Out of the 1,689 projects that the Environment ministry decided upon from 2008 up to August 2011, only 19 were rejected. The ministry...
More »Woman RTI activist shot dead in Bhopal by Mahim Pratap Singh
A prominent Right to Information activist and supporter of social activist Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign was shot dead outside her residence in Bhopal on Tuesday morning. Shehla Masood was shot dead by an unidentified assailant outside her house in the city's posh Koh-e-Fiza locality as she was on her way to an anti-corruption campaign being organised by her and other activists in support of Mr. Anna Hazare at the Bhopal Boat...
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