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August 29, 2011

Motions ans Resolutions In Parliament – Understanding Them In The Present Context

On 27th August, our Parliament passed a resolution accepting 3 conditions put forward by Anna Hazare. But parliament did not vote on the resolution, though government had promised team Anna that it would put the resolution for voice vote. Team Anna had specifically asked government to put the resolution for voting to know which party …

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August 23, 2011January 10, 2013

Comparision between Jan Lokpal Bill 2011 and Draft Lokpal Bill 2010 (Government Version)

The Draft Lokpal Bill 2010 and the Jan Lokpal Bill 2011 Jurisdiction, Powers and Functions of the Proposed Lokpal A Quick Comparison Prepared by Justice A P Shah Chief Justice (Retd), Delhi High Court, New Delhi & Venkatesh Nayak Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi & Co-Convenor, National Campaign for People’s Right to …

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August 16, 2011August 16, 2011

Australian Spring – ‘Climate Change’ Promises Government Change

Carbon tax is a fixed fee that domestic emitters must pay to the government on every tonne of CO2 they release into the atmosphere. This measure is resorted to discourage people and industries from using fossil fuels and decrease GHG emission. This will encourage people to switch on to cleaner forms of energy.

August 16, 2011December 9, 2011

CAG

Recently, Manish Tewari, spokesman of the ruling Congress party and an MP, questioned the role of CAG in Government’s policy matters. Participating in a debate inside Lok Sabha(Monsoon Session, August,2011), he asked, “Does CAG have the remit to comment on an appointment process as also the policy choices which a government makes or may not …

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August 15, 2011August 15, 2011

Summary Of Economic Surveys – 2009-2010, 2010-2011

Robust growth and steady fiscal consolidation have been the hallmark of the Indian economy in the year 2010-11 so far. The growth rate has been 8.6 percent in 2010-11 and is expected to be around 9 percent in the next fiscal year. The growth has been broad based with a rebound in the Agriculture sector which is expected to grow around 5.4 per cent.

August 8, 2011

Recent Successful Missions by ISRO

August 5, 2011July 4, 2013

Police Reforms In India: The Story So Far – (Updated)

‘The police force is far from efficient, it is defective in training and organization, it is inadequately supervised, it is generally regarded as corrupt and oppressive, and it has utterly failed to secure the confidence and cordial cooperation of the people’

August 4, 2011August 6, 2011

Lokpal Bill As Introduced in Loksabha on 4th August 2011

The Lok Pal Bill 2011 – As tabled in the Loksabha

July 31, 2011July 31, 2011

Draft Lokpal Bill, 2011 – The Government Version

Draft Lokpal Bill, 2011 (Click to see the PDF)

July 31, 2011August 6, 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)

July 30, 2011August 6, 2011

The Draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011

Draft land acquisition bill 2011 (click the link to see the PDF)

July 27, 2011August 6, 2011

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 …

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July 24, 2011August 6, 2011

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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June 30, 2011August 6, 2011

Greek Drama and the Awaiting Tragedy

European Union is struggling to save Greece. It is a swan song to save Greece and hence save the world. The sovereign debt crisis that has brought Greece on the verge of complete collapse is the result of political misjudgments, lies and Greek profligacy. Sovereign debt is the bonds a Sovereign country sells to the banks …

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April 13, 2011April 13, 2011

Return of Peace in Ivory Coast

The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan by the soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara may end the civil war that started after Mr Gbagbo refused to give up power after losing in the 2010 elections. It is a classic case of abuse of power and tendency to cling to power against the will of the …

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April 12, 2011

Lokpal Bill – Why Only Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Judges?

The draft Jan Lokpal Bill must include even the media, NGOs, private businesses and their owners. Biggest corruption of recent times have invariably included big business houses and also persons associated with the media. Corruption is universal and those who try to bribe the officials and politicians to get their clearances for big businesses like mining, …

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March 20, 2011

Us or USA?

The Hindu – Wikileaks Cables makes it very clear that our foreign policy is determined by the USA. It is indeed crafted to suit the strategic needs of USA. Wikileaks even reveals that USA played an important role in determining who should be our cabinet ministers!! Stooping to such a level is nothing but selling …

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March 17, 2011March 17, 2011

Cash for Democracy

“Saar, I have lost 2.3 lakhs to win this election, I am in debt now. If you issue checks directly to the beneficiaries, I won’t get a penny. Please, let me bring them to you so that I can extract some commission from them……….” This was a honest admission and a request from the Gram …

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February 4, 2011February 4, 2011

To-Let Toilets

I was surprised to see the toilet locked. In this village of some twenty homes, I had managed to convince everyone to construct their personal toilets. They had done that. But why would anyone lock their toilets when everyone has it around? I asked the man why he had done that. He, little embarrassed said …

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July 21, 2010July 21, 2010

Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

Source – PIB One of the most urgent and vexing problems in the developing world, more so in India, is how to finance and provide health care for more than a billion persons, most of whom are impoverished or belong to low income group. This is brought out clearly in the World Development Report 2000/2001. …

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