Draft Lokpal Bill, 2011 – The Government Version
Draft Lokpal Bill, 2011 (Click to see the PDF)
Month: July 2011
National Food Security Bill, 2011 – As Proposed By National Advisory Council (NAC)
National Food Security Bill, 2011 (Click the link to see the PDF)
The Draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011
Draft land acquisition bill 2011 (click the link to see the PDF)
Environmental Issue takes Backseat
Jayanti Natrajan is conspicuous by her absence on televisions these days. I searched her name in Google News, narrowing the results for the past month – there were 200 results; whereas, there were 602 results for Jairam Ramesh! The results show that the latter is more active these days than the former. That is on …
Perils of Democracy – In the Indian Context
The victim of democracy is the politics itself. As they say familiarity breeds contempt, politics in a democratic set up tends to be looked upon with contempt by the people. If, in India, people are asked to vote for an institution that has maintained some level of integrity – they would vote for the Supreme …
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Drought and Deaths – Despite Plenty
Horn of Africa is reeling under worst drought in 60 years. Ethiopia, Somalia, parts of Kenya, Djibouti and Sudan are experiencing a major humanitarian crisis thanks to meager rainfall and internal tensions among their tribes and governments. USA has pledged $68 million as relief. Very recently it pledged Libya rebels $3 billion money to form a …