-The Hindu They will be involved in the exercise in panchayats other than their own Chennai: Beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are going to be involved in carrying out social audit of works of the MGNREGS from April 1. To ensure that there is no conflict of interest, they will be engaged in the audit of village panchayats other than theirs. For each village panchayat, five persons...
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The Riddles of Ashis Nandy by Vijay Prashad
-Counterpunch.org “The rearing and guiding of a civilization must depend upon its intellectual class.” BR Ambedkar, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, 1943, Delhi. I. Arrest. States are clumsy with their enormous power. When it suits the modern state, it uses it immense apparatus to constraint those who make claims upon it or who say things that denigrate this or that section of society. A college professor in West Bengal draws a cartoon of...
More »Few takers among women for RTI -Partha Sarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express This is reflected in YASHDA’s 3-month certificate course on RTI, which hardly has any women Even as the Right to Information, (RTI) Act 2005 is being wielded as a transparency tool, authorities at Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHDA) say women have not being using it as they should. Former Central Information Commissioner (CIC) - a key player in the whole RTI process - Shailesh Gandhi too said...
More »Under MGNREGS, rural women find themselves empowered-D Karthikeyan
-The Hindu It has brought about financial independence to a certain extent for them Women, particularly Dalits, in rural areas of Madurai district find the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to be empowering, resulting in financial independence to a certain extent. The percentage of workers among the Scheduled Castes seeking MGNREGS jobs has remained constant in the district, only with a few changes over three years from 2009-10 to 2011-2012....
More »The new sexual security regime-Ratna Kapur
-The Hindu In protecting husbands from marital rape and khap panchayats from accountability for sexual wrongs, the government has lost an opportunity to change the way in which our society treats women In its eagerness to demonstrate that it is “doing something” about rape in response to the overwhelming protests over the brutal rape and murder of the 23-year-old Delhi student last December, the government has issued an ordinance that is both...
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