-Hindustan Times In their plea, former Bureaucrats MG Devasahayam, Somasundar Burra, and Aditi Mehta referred to the Registration of Electors Rules that allow the Registration Officer to entertain any objection, hold a summary inquiry and rectify any errors without hearing or notifying the affected party. The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to respond in four weeks to public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the rule...
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What is Chhattisgarh’s ‘PDS scam’ & why ED wants SC to allow a CBI investigation into it -Bhadra Sinha
-ThePrint.in Alleged PDS scam was unearthed in 2015 by Chhattisgarh's Anti-Corruption Bureau. SC will hear ED's plea to transfer the probe to CBI on 26 September. New Delhi: Last week, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) made a startling disclosure in the Supreme Court with regard to the seven-year-old alleged Public Distribution System (PDS) or Nagrik Apurti Nigam (NAN) scam in Chhattisgarh. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta claimed that a sitting High Court judge of the...
More »The case of the powerful, powerless sarkari officer -Yamini Aiyar
-Deccan Herald My colleague and I were in a District Education Office in Bihar. It had all the typical trappings of power. The officer we were meeting arrived with a litany of staff carrying his papers (and lunch box). In the short walk to his chamber, he barked orders to his staff, and as he sat on his chair and removed his Ray-Ban glasses, he commanded waiting visitors (mostly local residents...
More »Fortification of rice is not the correct solution to end malnutrition in Chhattisgarh, say fact-finding team members who visited the state
-Press release by by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj) and the Right To Food Campaign (RTFC) dated June 20, 2022 Raipur/ New Delhi: Activists of Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) and Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) urged the Chhattisgarh government to abandon its rice fortification interventions. They appealed to the state government that it should not get coerced into distributing fortified rice in the food schemes...
More »122 scientists, academicians criticise project to reportedly study ‘racial purity’ of Indians
-Scroll.in The Union culture ministry claimed that the news report about the study was misleading and that it was not related to establishing ‘genetics history’. Several scientists, historians, writers, former Bureaucrats and others on Friday wrote to the Ministry of Culture to express concern over a report claiming that the ministry was funding a project to “trace the purity of races in India”. In the open letter, the signatories said that the notion...
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