Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The 12 students of Sonshi Government Primary School in Sattari have nothing, but mining dust for company during their school hours. There is no playground or any open space in front of the school. No sooner the students step out of their classrooms they are catapulted into the thick of …
Delhi government makes a lake and a marshland disappear the Delhi government appears to be determined to construct buildings on lakes instead of restoring them. On August 17, the government filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court saying the Mayapuri lake and Jehangirpuri marshland are not waterbodies and can …
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Moviya (Rajkot district): Pravin Thumar, a farmer in Moviya village of Gondal taluka, was surprised to see in the documents obtained under Right to Information Act that he has been given at 50 per cent subsidised rate under a state government scheme a set of drip …
Kol tribals in Patha region of Chitrakut district (Uttar Pradesh) have taken a big step forward in exposing the corruption which prevents the benefits of various government schemes from reaching them. Patha Kol Adhikar Manch (PKAM), an organisation of tribals active for several years has taken the lead in this …
Vijaypura has ensured its place in history. It is here that the right to information movement led by the Mazdoor Kissan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) was born in Rajasthan. A Dalit is the sarpanch of the village. The rural jobs scheme is also vigorously implemented here.
India is reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines, which has severely affected the universal immunization programme reveals the latest report in Down To Earth (DTE). Is based on response to an RTI application filed by DTE that revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. See Also …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
Parliamentary committee asks centre to hold back CMZ notification sustained protests by fishing communities and environmentalists has forced the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to review the proposed Coastal Management Zone (cmz) draft notification that allows airports and other development projects in coastal areas. The ministry has set up …
NEW DELHI: The suspension order on vaccine manufacturing on three crucial public sector suppliers has the country reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines severely affecting its universal immunisation programme, the Centre for Science and Environment has said.
AHMEDABAD: Her name evokes awe and fear among government officials. She is considered a hard taskmaster and a revolutionary of sorts in her village Khaksar in Tarapur taluka of Anand district. Bhanu Parmar is known for her RTI applications on 2006 floods in Anand district that exposed that the district …
? 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 …
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 …
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.
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. Bharat …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
