Adding diversity to plate
The Government of India has proposed mandatory rice fortification to tackle the issue of malnutrition in the country. The process of fortification includes externally adding nutrients to a food item with
Right To Information (RTI)
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A Right To Information
? The Act does not cover Jammu and Kashmir. Wajahat Habibullah is currently the chief information commissioner, Central Information Commission. ? Information means any material in any form but does not include "file notings". ? Reasons for seeking information need not be given. ? If the officer concerned does not respond, he is liable to pay a penalty to be deducted from his salary.
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No smoking area boards now in govt
Vadodara: No smoking area' if you see this board at government offices in Vadodara, Surat and Ahmedabad, thank the RTI applicant from a city-based NGO. His RTI seeking information from all government offices in 12 cities in the state on whether these offices have put up No smoking' in their office premises forced them to act.
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Use RTI Act to weed out corruption
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has sought application of the Right to Information Act for elimination of corrupt practices in the much talked about National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
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He spoke for farmers
AHMEDABAD: His RTI application was responsible for Gujarat government finally succumbing to the fact that there were farmers suicides in Gujarat and that they were happening in large numbers. For the first time, the state government admitted that they were because of crop failure, debt and family nourishment issues.
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The Bottom Of The Pyramid
Working Plank ? CMs of states that efficiently implemented aam admi schemes were able to deliver the goods ? YSR spent Rs 5,000 crore on health. Two and a half million farmers benefited from the loan waiver. ? In BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh, the Rs 3 per kg rice scheme was a big hit. NREGS implementation was good. ? In Rajasthan, development schemes brought the Congress success
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The Right to Information: "Facilitating people's participation and state accountability"
The struggle for right to information was sparked off by an initial demand for details of Panchayat level expenditure, and it grew into a burgeoning movement and campaign for comprehensive legislation at the state and central levels. In the search for a breakthrough on minimum wages and corruption, it was able to access the records of some works in Raipur Tehsil, Pali district of Rajasthan.
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Zoo sans garden
Modernization of Mumbai zoo threatens botanical garden A RS 433-crore zoo modernization plan of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has come in for criticism. Citizen action groups and non-profits alleged the plan would lead to the destruction of the 21-hectare (ha) Jijamata Udyan where the zoo is located. The corporation denied this. The groups claimed the corporation had
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The information is public
Supreme Court
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Strengthen rural jobs scheme, says Aruna Roy
JAIPUR: In the wake of the general feeling that the pro-poor decisions by the United Progressive Alliance government, including the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), helped the Congress to do well in the current Lok Sabha elections, the pioneers of the cause, Magsaysay award winner Aruna Roy and her associates in the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), met Rajasthan Chief Mini
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Encroachment on forest land
The Right to Information (RTI) Act has exposed encroachment on three bighas of forest land, involving a former forest official and now pradhan of the Barswan gram panchayat in Balh block.