-The Indian Express Seeks stringent provisions in new law, says financial penalty is no deterrent since burden passed on to buyers. The Parliamentary Select Committee for the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill 2013 is likely to push for more stringent clauses that may lead to imprisonment of builders if they do not fulfill their obligations to home-buyers. After holding public consultations across the country, several members of the panel are of...
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Janani Suraksha Yojana: A scam of sorts in Uttar Pradesh
-Tehelka To avail the scheme's benefits, a 60-year-old woman in Bahraich was shown to have delivered a baby five times in 10 months, while another who never conceived in 12 years was paid Rs 1,400 as honorarium by the health department. An audit of Janani Suraksha Yojna beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh has come up with some startling facts. To avail the scheme’s benefits, a 60-year-old woman in Bahraich was shown to have...
More »Fearing action, over 1,400 schoolteachers resign -Madhuri Kumar
-The Times of India PATNA: Over 1,400 primary schoolteachers have resigned till date apprehending legal action for allegedly taking the job on fake educational certificates. "We expect more teachers to resign by July 9, the deadline set for doing so to escape punishment," said Vinodanand Jha, OSD to principal secretary, education department, on Thursday. The resignations follow the Patna high court directive to the state government on Monday last week to ask...
More »Child marriage in the time of #selfiewithdaughter -Manoj Mitta
-The Times of India In all the buzz about Narendra Modi's promotion of #selfiewithdaughter, what seems to have been overlooked is one bar baric form of discrimination that millions of daughters continue to suffer in this day and age. It's child marriage, which affects the upbringing of daughters and pushes them into situations long before they are physically and mentally capable of handling them. The country has displayed few signs of...
More »Poor Bear the Brunt of Corruption in India’s Food Distribution System -Neeta Lal
-IPSNews.net NEW DELHI: Chottey Lal, 43, a daily wage labourer at a construction site in NOIDA, a township in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beleaguered man. After a gruelling 12-hour daily shift at the dusty location, he and his wife Subha make barely enough to feed a family of seven. Nor is the couple ever able to procure the subsidized rations they are legally entitled to, under a...
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