Do you want a job that does not pay you at all? The answer will be surely 'no' for most of us. And yet, in our previous analysis, it was found that the proportion of 'helpers in household enterprises' among the total number of workers grew over various rounds of annual PLFS (Periodic Labour Force Survey), from 13.3 percent to 15.9 percent between PLFS 2018-19 and PLFS 2019-20, and then...
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About 2% of state's grazing land under encroachment: Maharashtra govt tells Bombay HC -Vidya
-India Today The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court that 2.23 per cent of four lakh hectares of grazing land in the state are under encroachment. In Short: * About 2.23 per cent of the total grazing land in Maharashtra is under encroachment * 24,513 encroachments have been removed from July 12, 2011 to September 15, 2022 * Bombay HC court asked the state govt what steps will it take to remove the encroachments The...
More »'Every Woman' releases Zero Draft of global treaty on preventing violence against women & girls
-Press release by Every Woman Treaty dated September 30, 2022 Every Woman, a coalition of more than 1,700 women's rights advocates in 128 countries, including India, has developed the findings-based draft instrument (Zero Draft EWT), informed by extensive consultation with experts from all regions of the world, including survivors, frontline activists, medical specialists, practitioners, scholars, human rights attorneys, and policy-makers. This Draft of global binding norm focuses on violence prevention and...
More »Demonetization under Supreme Court scanner -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Over two dozen petitions have challenged the legal and constitutional validity of DeMo A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice Abdul Nazeer will on Wednesday start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation of high-value currency notes in November 2016. Over two dozen petitions have challenged the legal and constitutional validity of the demonetisation and the short window offered to citizens to exchange the demonetised notes. A three-judge...
More »Bombay High Court query on appeal for meat ad ban
-PTI/ The Telegraph HC notes that while an ordinary person has option of switching off television when such an ad comes, it will have to look at issue on the point of law Bombay High Court on Monday asked three Jain religious charitable trusts and a city resident practising Jainism why they were seeking to encroach on the rights of others by appealing for restrictions or ban on advertisements for meat and...
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