Tag: GOVERNMENT

The implementation of RTI will depend on ensuring transparent appointments for the post of commissioners and addressing the reasons for poor implementation.

Subsidized education, maternity benefits and timely pensions were all guaranteed to registered construction workers under the BOCW Act.

POLICY MAKERS / From the allocation of pension to widows to lack of schooling and employment opportunities for women, the nation has witnessed continued neglect of women’s empowerment over the last five years.

Indian Military Officials appeal to the President of the State to stop political parties from using the military or associated symbols for political gains.

The state government in Jammu and Kashmir has stopped giving advertisements to the popular English dailies Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader, major English and Urdu newspapers in the state carried an empty front page to protest against the state’s decision.

More than 10 lakh bank employees across the nation have gone on strike opposing the merger of public sector banks and their growing dissatisfaction with wages.

Mid-day Meal Scheme The negligence and state apathy shown towards the mid-day meal scheme was recently brought to light when five states were fined by the Supreme Court for not meeting the benchmark.

Hegemonic and authoritarian models of development are often against both communities and forests. Here is a look at the life and struggle of the Soliga Tribe in Karnataka that asserted its rights and won back its access to the forest as a source of life and livelihood.

REPORTAGE Taking a cue from online shopping websites that deliver consumer goods to your doorstep, the AAP has come up with the Doorstep Delivery of documents for the convenience of the residents of Delhi.

ENVIRONMENT | Ganges is a river whose protection has captured the national imagination but without sustained initiatives and state machinery it can just remain a partial effort.