-The Hindu Haryana pollution board told to file report within a month The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) to furnish a report on a plea which alleged that waste water being discharged had damaged crops and contaminated groundwater. Taking note of a November 2019 report furnished by the pollution control board, a Bench headed by NGT chief Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said, “Let further action...
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Law Ministry gives nod for Aadhaar Card linking with Voter ID: Take note of these new details -Debjit Sinha
-Financial Express Aadhaar Voter ID linking, seeding: It all began in August 2019 when the ECI wrote a letter addressed to the Law Secretary proposing amendments to two pivotal acts- Aadhaar Act, 2016, and Representation of the People Act, 1950. Aadhaar-Voter ID linking process gets Modi government nod! The Union Law Ministry has given its approval for Aadhaar Card Voter ID linking process, a proposal put forwarded by the Election Commission of...
More »JNU violence: 4 contradictions in what university admin told police vs what it said in RTI reply -Munish Pandey
-IndiaToday.in Biometric systems and CCTV cameras at the server room were not vandalised in the first week of January, contrary to the claims made by the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration that students had destroyed them on January 3, the varsity has said in an RTI reply. A Right To Information (RTI) reply filed by the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration on recent incidents in the university has exposed several discrepancies in the claims...
More »'Open more private hospitals in next five years, make healthcare a fundamental right': Panel -Sumi Sukanya Dutta
-The New Indian Express The committee recommended that the number of MBBS and PG seats in the country be made equal by 2025, along with shifting healthcare from the state list to the concurrent list in the Constitution. NEW DELHI: A high-level panel on reforms in the health sector has come up with radical suggestions like shifting healthcare from the state list to the concurrent list in the Constitution, opening over 3,000-5,000...
More »Is MGNREGS the answer to the rural slowdown? -Sneha Alexander & Nikita Kwatra
-Livemint.com MGNREGS could alleviate rural distress but, in its current form, its overall impact on the rural economy is limited in scope With rural distress deepening across India and private consumption growing anaemically, calls for ramping up the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), are growing louder ahead of the upcoming budget. Proponents of MGNREGS believe that it may be the only ammunition in the government’s arsenal to fight rural...
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