Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that school education will be exempt from service tax. He added that there will be a tax on all services except those 17 items in the negative list. Some infra construction services too have been exempt from service tax. Besides, service tax has …
Threatening to launch a “big protest” for a strong Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare on Friday said the government will have to go if it does not bring a strong anti-corruption law. He said he will campaign for a strong Lokpal Bill till the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and …
NEW DELHI: To encourage collaboration and networking between India's CSR groups and NGO communities, exhibition organizer, UBM India, is launching NGO India 2012 at Epicenter, Gurgaon. The two-day event, starting from Friday, March 16, will host stalls from over 150 NGOs and foundations. Free workshops and paid-for conferences will run …
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said on Wednesday that the government would bring the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha within the first part of the Budget Session. “Notwithstanding the primacy that is accorded to passing of financial business, the government wishes to bring the Lokpal Bill for further …
Under fire over the killing of a young IPS officer allegedly by the mining mafia, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday announced that his government will recommend CBI probe, a demand made by the victim’s family. The issue rocked the Assembly, which was adjourned for the day …
New Delhi: Almost a year after he tapped into public discontent, activist Anna Hazare will return to Jantar Mantar on Sunday to press for a strong whistleblowers’ Act. Hazare will sit on a daylong protest fast spurred by the outcry over the killing of IPS officer Narender Kumar by mining …
Subramaniam Paramarthalingam Udayakumar was 21 when he, along with a few friends, started the Group of Peaceful Indian Ocean to campaign against ships and submarines said to be ferrying nuclear weapons across the Indian Ocean. They believed these American, Soviet, British and French vessels could be catastrophic to countries that …
Political representation is a necessary condition for a liberal democracy. Political quotas are meant to address the absence of those who are excluded because of the inegalitarian social structures in which political processes are enacted. This is accepted as a legitimate justification for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe quotas in …
Chandigarh: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has sanctioned Rs 54 crore grant to Chandigarh Unit of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for academic session 2012-13. Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan had put across a budget proposal of Rs 72 crore. This year, two new schools will be set up under SSA …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the e-panchayat system, a new initiative of the State Government at a State-level function at Garhakota in Sagar district on March 2. The function will be presided over by Panchayat and Rural Development and Social Justice Minister Gopal Bhargava. Minister of State Dev …
The Madhya Pradesh Government is committed to providing best quality of education to its students. One of such efforts include bringing improvement in higher education through partnership between Madhya Pradesh government and World Bank. Work is being undertaken on a Rs. 1000 crore project for this purpose. Chief Minister Shivraj …
Mumbai: Students from class VI to XII will have one subject less to study from the next academic year. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has decided to drop EVS (environmental studies) as a separate subject. In an affidavit filed with the Supreme Court, NCERT said it …
It is a government agency that was set up specially to fund non-profits working on rural development. But of late the Council for People’s Action and Advancement of Rural Technology (CAPART) has been plagued by allegations of corruption and inefficiency. After a few failed attempts to reform CAPART, the government …
While a number of issues pertaining to the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 are yet to be resolved by the UT Administration, educationists from neigbouring states have revealed that the situation is similar in their states as well. A number of educationists from Punjab, Haryana and …
Geraldine J. Fraser-Moleketi, Practice Director, Democratic Governance Group, United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP) has expressed interest in visiting Kerala and learning about the government’s work in the area of democratic governance. “We would be happy to explore areas of mutual collaboration in strengthening South-South learning initiatives and possible partnership with …
What happens when a people-centric approach to governance (State Wide Attention on Grievances through Application of Technology) connects with technology.
Meena Chaturvedi is an Indian Audit and Accounts Service official of 1987 cadre. After a 23-year career she took voluntary retirement to join SREI Sahaj e-Village Limited as chief executive officer (public services and e-learning) in October 2010.
This analysis examines what the ubiquitous presence of political “brokers” who mediate many people’s access to state institutions reveals about the Indian state and the complex causes of corruption in Indian public life. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bihar since 2002, it reveals the role of brokers within both …
Bhubaneswar: The initiative of the Odisha government in IT sector yielded result as the Centre has selected the state for the award under Best Government Portal category. Project Integrated Treasury Management System (iOTMS) of the Directorate of Treasuries & Inspection of finance department) has won the gold under the excellence …
