-The Hindu Business Line A mint-fresh working paper by the Reserve Bank of India once again trains the spotlight on a problem that, for five decades, every policy-maker has planned to snuff out, failed to, and then wished it would go away if ignored. But financial exclusion simply hasn't, and we now have the central bank applying its forensic skills to an examination of its magnitude. The title of Working Paper Series...
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Students can seek copy, inspect answer sheets under RTI Act -Kapil Dave
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Results are out and there will be some students who will not be satisfied with their results. Those students can inspect their evaluated answer book under RTI Act, 2005. Supreme Court of India has very specifically ruled out that students can inspect their answer sheet under RTI Act and any by-laws or rules/regulation of Education Board/Examination Board cant prevent them from doing so. Gujarat Information commission...
More »One lakh children in India die of diarrhoea annually: Lancet
-The Hindu Over 1,00,000 children, below the age of 11 months, die of diarrhoea annually in India which is the second leading killer of young children globally, after pneumonia. India accounts for the highest number of diarrhoeal deaths, a latest study has suggested. A new international study published in the latest edition of the British medical journal The Lancetprovides the clearest picture yet of the impact and most common causes of diarrhoeal...
More »Evaluation office for rural development -Elizabeth Roche
-The Times of India The new office will give real time analysis of the government's social programmes, says Jairam Ramesh At a time when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is facing flak for a series of alleged corruption scams, the ministry of rural development that has an annual budget of approximately ` 800 billion has decided to go ahead and create an office of concurrent evaluation. The proposal for a...
More »Tribals set to decide Vedanta project’s fate -Nitin Sethi
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The villages of Dongriya Kondh tribals around Odisha's Niyamgiri hills are likely to simmer again as the Centre and the state government along with civil society groups are planning to converge on the site for the proposed Vedanta bauxite mine. The Supreme Court order has left it to the villagers to decide the fate of the Vedanta project, and the call revolves on whether the venture...
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