-Hindustan Times In accordance with a Supreme Court judgment of 2014, compensation of ₹10 lakh each is paid to the families of those who have died while cleaning sewers or septic tanks from the year 1993 onwards. New Delhi: A parliamentary standing committee has expressed disappointment over the delay in release of compensation to the families of 104 people who died while cleaning sewer or septic tanks manually, saying that there appears...
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Centre to amend insolvency law to reduce time taken for resolution process
-PTI/ The Telegraph Senior govt official says consultations are going on with various stakeholders and changes are expected to be finalised in coming weeks New Delhi: The government is preparing to amend the insolvency law as it looks to reduce the time taken for the completion of the resolution process of stressed assets and prevent significant erosion of value of the assets, according to a senior official. Amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy...
More »Sharp decline in disposal, increased pendency -- how pandemic affected district courts in India -Akshat Jain
-ThePrint.in There’s been a 40% decline in disposal of cases during pandemic, a report mapping district courts’ performance showed. The study was conducted by a Delhi-based think-tank. New Delhi: The pandemic has severely affected the justice delivery system in India, causing a sharp decline in the disposal of cases, a study mapping the performance of district courts during the pandemic shows. In its latest report called ‘Data Speak: A look at the District...
More »Axe on grants for poor -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Scholarship pool for OBCs, minorities reduced New Delhi: The pool of poor schoolchildren from the Other Backward Classes and religious minorities who are eligible for two government scholarships has been drastically cut short from this year. The Centre has revised two schemes — the Pre-Matric Scholarship for OBCs and the Pre-Matric Scholarship for minorities — by limiting eligibility to students of Classes IX and X, and only those enrolled in...
More »ICDS adversely affected post-Covid, says economist -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph Jean Dreze claims that in the case of PDS, condition of Chhattisgarh and Odisha is better than Jharkhand Jamshedpur: Economist Jean Dreze said on Friday that not even 70 per cent of public distribution system (PDS) beneficiaries in Jharkhand have been receiving foodgrains after the Covid-19 pandemic. The Belgian economist, social scientist and activist painted a dismal picture of the public distribution system in the state while addressing a workshop on...
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