Disenfranchising the poor The right to contest elections may not be a statutory or legal right but it definitely is the essential feature of democratic process Last month, the Supreme Court in a far reaching judgement upheld the Haryana government’s decision to bar certain categories of citizens from contesting local elections. The judgement delivered by […]
Read MoreIs the Internet a public good? As an enabler of development, its primary value is for providing access to other basic goods and services The growth of the Internet in the 1990s led to the fear of a new kind of social inequity in the form of the digital divide. A contrary view was that […]
Read MoreKey Initiatives and Achievements of Ministry of Law & Justice Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Ordinance, 2015 and Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment ) Ordinance, 2015 Promulgated Draft National Litigation Policy Formulated Web Portal for Centralized Data Regarding Cases by or against the Union of […]
Read MoreMajor Achievements in respect of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs for the year 2015 YEAR-END REVIEW 2015 The 13th Edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention was held successfully at Mahatma Mandir Convention Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 7 – 9 January, 2015. This year’s PBD was special being the […]
Read MoreWhy it’s imperative for Parliament to move into a new building While the structure has aged, the number of Lok Sabha seats is likely to increase after 2026 The 88-year-old Parliament House (or Sansad Bhavan in Hindi) may well move to a new building, if a proposal by Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Sunday […]
Read More“Saral Avedan, Sugam Prakriya, Swachh Prashasan” key to Good Governance initiatives of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has said the government is dedicated to service of the people of India in a true sense. Addressing a Press Conference here today […]
Read MoreParliament passes the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2015 with the passage of the bill in the Rajya Sabha today The Rajya Sabha passed the landmark Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2015 today. With this, the Bill stands passed in the Parliament. The Bill was earlier passed by the […]
Read MoreIndia, world’s top arms importer, reworks policy to make weapons at home The procurement policy, reviewed about every two years, is due to be published soon, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said recently India’s first defence procurement policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to bolster domestic arms manufacturing in the world’s biggest importer of […]
Read MoreEnd the political siege on reforms It may sound impossible to reach a consensus, but just remember that politics is the art of the impossible Last Friday, Supreme Court judge A.K. Sikri weighed in on the eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), something that has caused legislative paralysis for the […]
Read MoreThe limits of control in Parliament India’s opposition has little procedural room to do anything other than exactly what it is doing now The current intransigence in the Rajya Sabha over the goods and services tax (GST) and other legislation is the latest and most extreme version of the unconstructive opposition that has plagued India’s […]
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