NAGPUR: In a shocking incident a city school issued transfer CERTificates (TC) to two siblings without showing any cause or informing their parents beforehand. TOI had reported on July 5 that the Mahatma Gandhi Centennial primary school (MGC) in Jaripatka had refused entry to two of its students. After their father filed a complaint with the education department, the school sent the TC for both the kids by post without...
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Court order goes against Doctrine of Separation of Powers: Centre by J. Venkatesan
The Centre, while seeking to recall/modify the July 4 Supreme Court order on the black money issue, has disputed the finding that CERTain admissions and concessions were made by the government counsel during the course of hearing of the petition filed by the former Union Law Minister, Ram Jethmalani. On July 15, the Centre filed an application for recall of the order (briefly published on July 16). According to the application...
More »Corrupt Bundelkhand officials feed off aid for dead farmers by Neha Dixit
In Uttar Pradesh's most impoverished region, Bundelkhand, government officials feed off not just the living but also the dead. Headlines Today has exposed how corrupt officials exploit the grieving families of farmers, who have committed suicide. In a visit to Bundelkhand in 2008, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi repeated a phrase borrowed from his father Rajiv Gandhi: "Out of 100 paise, only 15 paise reaches the poor". While travelling through this dustbowl...
More »RTE norms in Maharashtra may be diluted by Sandeep Ashar
MUMBAI: CERTain provisions in the Right to Education (RTE) Act could be diluted at the time of its implementation in the state. Senior ministers in the state Cabinet, who are affiliated to private aided schools and educational institutes, have expressed reservations regarding CERTain clauses incorporated in the Act, which was enacted by the centre in 2009 and has since been implemented in over 12 states. The state school and sports department...
More »Beyond enquiry by V Venkatesan
The Central government exempts the CBI from the Right To Information Act's purview without seeking Parliament's approval. THE Right to Information Act, 2005, originally exempted 18 public authorities under the Central government from disclosure of information. Section 24 of the Act provided this exemption to intelligence and security organisations specified in the Second Schedule of the Act, and permitted the Central government to amend the Schedule, by notification in the...
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