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‘Need balanced criteria to judge backwardness’
@jitendrachoube1 Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
In what ways are the present criteria for deciding backwardness of a state flawed? Has the development of some states been hit due to these shortcomings?
Interviewee:
Shaibal Gupta
Costly push to mega projects
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
DESPITE concerns from civil society groups, the Union Cabinet gave in-principle nod for setting up a Cabinet Committee for Investment (CCI) on December 13. Introduced as the National Investment Board (NIB) by the Union finance ministry earlier this year, CCI is being set up for expediting clearances for mega projects with investment of above Rs 1,000 crore. CCI will be chaired by the prime minister and comprise members from various ministries as decided by him.
The right call?
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2012
Is this ‘legitimate rape’?
Posted on: 30 Aug, 2012
The official response to CAG’s report on captive coal mines fails to address serious issues on the loot of natural resources
Gutkha sympathiser
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
Forest dwellers denied rights
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2012
THE latest status report of the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs on the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 confirms the general perception that the law has not benefitted the majority of the country’s forest dwellers. The report shows that more than half of the claims filed by the tribal people and other forest dwellers for land titles under FRA have been rejected.
To protect or to empower?
Issue Date: May 15, 2012
THE Centre is once again tied in knots over whether the Jarawa tribe should be protected in isolation or brought into mainstream. Brushing aside a policy formulated in 2004, a parliamentary standing committee on March 21 asked the Centre to bring the tribe into the mainstream.
The civil spring
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2012
It is a spring India’s civil society will remember for a long time. A series of government and judicial pronouncements this February has created a flutter among non- government organisations (NGOs) and activists working on key governance issues.
New poverty estimate scrapped
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2012
ARGUABLY, India does not have a poverty estimate. It faces a tough question: how to measure poverty. Confusion erupts as multiple expert groups and organisations are working on a new methodology to measure poverty.
Time to reveal
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2012
Want to know how funds under the rural job guarantee scheme were used in a remote district of Rajasthan or Gujarat, or looking for information on various subsidy schemes? With a recently approved policy on sharing of non-sensitive data online, such information would be a click away.
