-ThePRInt.in According to a Common Cause-CSDS report, just 8% of people in UP and 9% in Punjab find performance and perception of police satisfactory. Himachal & Haryana top the list with 71%. New Delhi: The people of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana are rather satisfied with the way their respective police forces function, while Punjab and Uttar Pradesh think they’re awful. According to a report by NGO Common Cause and the Lokniti programme of...
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Improving social audits -Suchi Pande & Rakesh R Dubbudu
-The Hindu Telangana’s experience is instructive The institutionalisation of “social audits” to ensure implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has been challenging. Since being included in the 2005 Act at the behest of social movements, social audits have been ineffective in most parts of the country due to government indifference. So far, 26 States have created social audit units (SAUs), but the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG’s) detailed guidelines...
More »Maharashtra Govt Fails to Fulfil Promises, Farmer Organisations Call For 'Jail Bharo' Protest -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Around two lakh farmers will court arrest on May 14, which is the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. Various farmer organisations, under the banner of Shetkari Sanghatana Sukanu Samiti, have called for a ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’ on May 14, across the state of Maharashtra. The court arrest, by over two lakh farmers, is slated to take place on the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. They will be protesting against...
More »65 per cent satisfied with policing in the country: Report
-PTI NEW DELHI: Around 65 per cent of people find policing satisfactory in the country, according to a report which also stated that Delhi is one of the "worst" states as far as public satisfaction over police help is concerned. The 'Status of Policing in India Report 2018', that studies performance and perceptions concerning police in 22 states, was released here on Wednesday. The report says that in Haryana, highest (71 per cent)...
More »Muslims Representation in Police Low, Number of PRIsoners Relatively High -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in A report points at how a large number of Muslims feel they are implicated in terrorism cases, Dalits for petty crimes, and Adivasis for being Maoists. Muslim representation in the police force remains abysmally low whereas the community continues to have a disproportionately high representation in PRIsons, a report brought out by Common Cause and the Lokniti-Programme for Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) has...
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