21 Saturday Mar 2015
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After the Supreme Court has ordered that Adhar can not be mandatory for subsidies of the government, Planning Minister Rao Indrajit Singh told the Parliament yesterday that Adhar is not mandatory and the subsidies will be given without adhar.
20 Friday Mar 2015
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The Karnataka CM has now been compelled to hand over the death case of D.K.Ravi IAS’s death case to the CBI after direction from Congress President Sonia Gandhi. The entire country and in the Parliament also there has been strong protest and demand to hand over the case to CBI, but the CM only wanted a CID enquiry under the state government. DK Ravi IAS was the Additional Commissioner, Commercial Taxes who was organising raids on the powerful business community for tax evasion etc.
Let the CBI enquiry bring forth the truth.
20 Friday Mar 2015
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The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions (Department of Personnel & Training) vide order dated 19th March has declared 14th April 2015 as a closed holiday as the Birth Anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution of India and also the messiah of the exploited scheduled castes. So far well and good.
But why the declaration every year just before the 14th April? It should be declared as a holiday, along with the calendar of Holidays being published by the government before the start of the year. We do not understand why is the hesitation to do so.
The government should certainly consider the suggestion.
20 Friday Mar 2015
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The Supreme Court of India laid down formal guidelines for dealing with sexual harassment at the workplace in the case of Vishakha Vs. State of Rajasthan. The guidelines clearly state that all workplaces should constitute a Complaint Committee to deal with complaints of sexual harassment. Taking forward the Supreme Court guidelines, “Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013” was enacted which came into force with effect from 9th December 2013.
The Act casts a responsibility on every employer to create an environment which is free from sexual harassment. Employers are required to organize workshops and awareness programmes at regular intervals for sensitizing the employees about the provision of this legislation and display notices regarding the constitution of Internal Committee, penal consequences of sexual harassment etc. An employer will be liable to a fine of Rs 50,000/- in case of violation of his duties under the Act and in case of subsequent violations, the amount of fine will be double together with penalty in the form of cancelation of his licence, withdrawal or non-renewal of the registration required for carrying out his activity.
The Ministry of Women and Child Development had issued advisories to States/UTs to ensure effective implementation of the Act. The Ministries/Departments in Government of India have also been advised to ensure the compliance of the Act.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi a in written reply to an unstarred question in the Rajya Sabha today. (News Report)
20 Friday Mar 2015
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38 years have passed after the draconian “Internal Emergency” promulgated by Indira Gandhi was with drawn and democracy restored to India.
The Emergency was promulgated on 25th June 1975 after the cancellation of the Election of Indira Gandhi, violating all norms of democracy. All the opposition leaders were arrested and put in jail. More than 1,40,000 people were put in prison. Many Trade Union leaders were put behind bar during the Emergency. Com.N.J.Iyer was arrested and put in prison. News papers were not allowed to publish any news against the government. it was almost terror let loose.
The government was compelled to conduct election in March 1977, in which the ruling party Indian National Congress bit the dust and almost all leaders including Indira Gandhi was defeated. It could not get a single seat in UP which was always its base. The Janata party won with good majority.
The Emergency was withdrawn on 21st March 1977 and democracy restored.
The dark days of Emergency should never happen again!
20 Friday Mar 2015
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India is one of the five countries, India, Brazil, China, Mexico and Indonesia, which accounts for half of the world’s poor. India tops the list. This is as per the report of the International Food Policy Research Institute. The report also states that India has got 47.9% of the stunted children in the world, the maximum of any country.
The rules of the country, both UPA and NDA or Congress and BJP should hang their heads in shame that they could not remove poverty in the country. While the crorepatis and millionaires have been increasing on the one hand, the poorest were also increasing.
The neo-liberal policies being adopted by the successive governments have made the situation worse. The governments, even after sixty 67 years of freedom can not remove poverty have no right to continue.
These rulers have never known poverty and hunger. Had they experienced poverty and hunger, they would have taken some action, at least. Shame on them!
20 Friday Mar 2015
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The Central government has asked the Gramin/Rural banks to cut their staff to ensure viability. A number of employees will be deprived of their jobs.
The Central Government is expected to create more jobs and reduce unemployment. But the NDA government is moving to cut even the existing jobs.
Probably this is also part of a scheme to privatise the rural/gramin banks.
20 Friday Mar 2015
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The Railways Minister has constituted a Council called ‘Kaya Palp Council’ for the giving recommendations to improve the Railways service. Mr. Ratan Tata is the Chairman. Com Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary General AIRF and Shri M.Raghaviah, Secretary General NFIR are members of the Council. Workers participation is included in the Council. Hearty Congratulations to the comrades selected in the council.
Let us hope that some serious work will be done by the Council
19 Thursday Mar 2015
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Criminal cases were filed against 148 Maruti workers against strike and some unhappy incidents in Maruti Suzuki company two years back. All the workers are in jail due to the connivance of Maruti company and Haryana Govt. It is only a few days back that some 77 and another 2 workers got bail.
The Haryana Government even did not recognise the union which is having huge majority with them. The government was harassing the workers and put them in jail to please the MNC.
Now one more information has come. The Haryana Government had engaged top and Senior Advocate K.T.S.Tulsi against the workers and paid him Rs. 5.20 crore as legal fee, in violation of existing rule. It was during the earlier government. The new government is reported to order a probe in the matter.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
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The decision of the Election Commission to put photos of candidates in the ballot paper is timely and necessary. This will stop the confusion being created by the candidates with the same or similar name. This scheme will be implemented from the elections being held after 1 May 2015.
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