-The Times of India JAIPUR: Direct cash transfer scheme that was rolled out from January 1 this year in three pilot districts of Rajasthan is facing crippling absence of banking infrastructure and at this point it's anybody's guess when the banks can do their part to provide legs to the UPA-II's ambitious project. One of the pillar's of the project was to have banking correspondents (BCs) in the unbanked villages so that...
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Anti-Women Politicos Should Go Home: Jairam Ramesh
-Outlook Taking a strong stand against the statements made by some politicians after the Delhi gang rape incident, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today said such people should be asked to "go home". The minister said he felt "diminished as a human being" after the December incident which has hurt India's image across the world. "None of us have come out of this looking good. Personally as a man, as an Indian, I felt...
More »In Rural India, rapes are common, but justice for victims is not-Simon Denyer
-Denver Post BANWASA, India — The teenage girl was overpowered by four men at a railway crossing near this village and bundled into a car. For five days she was kept, imprisoned and naked, in a windowless outhouse on nearby farmland and raped repeatedly. Despite its brutality, the September incident merited just a few lines in a domestic news-agency story about a string of such crimes in the northern state of Haryana....
More »A woman-shaped gap in the Indian workforce-Jayan Jose Thomas
-The Hindu A mix of social constraints and dearth of employment opportunities has kept women out of the labour market, leading to a huge opportunity cost to the nation Women in India face enormous challenges for their participation in the economy — in a way that mirrors the many injustices they suffer in the society at large. The labour participation rate of women — that is, the number of women in the...
More »RBI cites law to stonewall RTI info-Sandeep Pai
-DNA As cases of denial of information under the Right to Information Act pile up, the Reserve Bank of India approached various courts as many as nine times against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) orders directing it to provide information. Seven of these cases are now pending in the Delhi High Court while two are in the Bombay High Court. Not only has the RBI preferred litigation against providing information, the central...
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