Supreme Court gives a blow to the UID
The Supreme Court issued an interim order in a case filed by Justice (Retd.) K.S. Puttaswamy which gives a severe jolt to the Centre's hopes of making the Aadhar cards available to every citizen and make it an essential component of welfare schemes. The Court took reservations to the fact that on one hand the Aadhar cards are being projected as voluntary, the implementation of welfare programs is being hinged on it.
Millenium Development Goals Revisited
The United Nations has proposed a new set of development goals to take effect after 2015. In this EPW piece, it has been argued that the new goals are not of much significance as they still retain the problems that were associated with the present goals - that of vagueness and lack of specific obligations, diminished role of the civil society, and institutional failure to look at institutional reforms.
Poverty trends: Worsening of poverty from 2004-2009
In another EPW article, Utsa Patnaik analyses and compares poverty estimates and other official figures between 2004-05 to 2009-10 and concludes that contrary to what the government would make us believe, poverty in terms of nutritional intake has only increased during this period.
Land Acquisition Bill: Becoming a reality soon
As reported here, Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has said that the Land Acquisition Bill will be brought into force in two months. But even has the time for notification of the Bill is fast approaching, the debate around the new land acquisition regime continues. In his column of the Business Standard, Dilip Mookherjee highlights issues such as the fate of land misappropriated by governments themselves, identification of land-owners and tenancy registration, among others.
The Supreme Court issued an interim order in a case filed by Justice (Retd.) K.S. Puttaswamy which gives a severe jolt to the Centre's hopes of making the Aadhar cards available to every citizen and make it an essential component of welfare schemes. The Court took reservations to the fact that on one hand the Aadhar cards are being projected as voluntary, the implementation of welfare programs is being hinged on it.
Millenium Development Goals Revisited
The United Nations has proposed a new set of development goals to take effect after 2015. In this EPW piece, it has been argued that the new goals are not of much significance as they still retain the problems that were associated with the present goals - that of vagueness and lack of specific obligations, diminished role of the civil society, and institutional failure to look at institutional reforms.
Poverty trends: Worsening of poverty from 2004-2009
In another EPW article, Utsa Patnaik analyses and compares poverty estimates and other official figures between 2004-05 to 2009-10 and concludes that contrary to what the government would make us believe, poverty in terms of nutritional intake has only increased during this period.
Land Acquisition Bill: Becoming a reality soon
As reported here, Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has said that the Land Acquisition Bill will be brought into force in two months. But even has the time for notification of the Bill is fast approaching, the debate around the new land acquisition regime continues. In his column of the Business Standard, Dilip Mookherjee highlights issues such as the fate of land misappropriated by governments themselves, identification of land-owners and tenancy registration, among others.
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