KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Aadhaar drive on voters from today -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph The Election Laws (Amendment) Act passed last year allows poll authorities to ask people to share their card details, aimed at weeding out duplicate entries of voters A nationwide drive to urge voters to voluntarily give their Aadhaar numbers to polling officials is set to begin on Monday. The Election Laws (Amendment) Act passed last year allows poll authorities to ask people to share their Aadhaar numbers — aimed at weeding...
More »SC urged to drop para cited to arrest activist Teesta Setalvad -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph A group of retired civil servants has also issued a statement urging the apex court to review its Zakia Jafri verdict A group of retired civil servants has issued a statement urging the Supreme Court to review its Zakia Jafri verdict and withdraw a paragraph that Gujarat police have cited to arrest social activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer R.B. Sreekumar. The apex court had dismissed Zakia’s plea challenging a...
More »Retired bureaucrats write to PM Modi of ‘disturbing’ developments in Lakshadweep
-The Hindu The islanders have to be consulted before any change is imposed, they say A group of retired bureaucrats wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday to express concern over what it termed were “disturbing developments” in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep “in the name of development”. Ninety-three former All India and Central services officers of the Constitutional Conduct Group wrote to Mr. Modi on the occasion of...
More »Under Modi govt, civil servants have lost initiative and drive. India is paying the price -Samir Singh Chandel
-ThePrint.in In various state govts, the office of district magistrate has been reduced to a glorified post office that receives instructions from various govt departments. Not so long ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ridiculed India’s civil servants in Parliament when he questioned whether the government should be run by ‘babus’, a euphemism for bureaucrats. It is ironic to see the PM now, addressing the very same ‘babus’, the district magistrates of...
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