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Author s Note:
This story draws directly upon my experience of investigating the targeted Public Distribution programme in Bihar between 1996- 2002. The cost of lost opportunity to the poor in this grievously miscarried programme may have been to the tune of Rs. 3,500 to 4,000 crores. Midway the government divested me of the investigation and handed it over to the Vigilance. Not much has been heard of it since then. A thumbnail version of a larger project - the parable of the well paid public servant - implementation of poverty alleviation programmes in Bihar. The wise Mr Dang has a counterpart in real life as indeed any one who cares to read my post The Poor Must Prevail.
The People’s National Convention Party has urged President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo to appoint more women into national leadership in his second term.
A statement signed by Madam Janet Nabla, General Secretary of PNC, and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), noted that women were underrepresented in the President’s first term administration.
The statement said he should appoint women as ministers, Deputies, Ministers, MMDCEs, Board Members, among others to reflect his role as Gender Ambassador of the African Union.
It said that women could be good leaders when given the opportunity and that the President should allow them to showcase their leadership abilities just like other African countries such as Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt.
NHRC issues notice to TN govt over death of woman warehouse manager ANI | Updated: Dec 18, 2020 21:30 IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognisance of a complaint related to the death of a woman warehouse manager employed in the Kancheepuram Agriculture Development office of Tamil Nadu Government.
According to the complaint, since there is no toilet in her office, the 24-year-old victim had gone to relieve herself in a nearby building that was being constructed under a state government scheme.
The complaint further stated that a tin sheet was used to cover the septic tank, nearby where she went to relieve herself. She somehow slipped and fell into the tank. When she did not return for half an hour, her colleagues got worried and went in search of her.
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Petition in Supreme Court for uniform divorce law, a step closer to common civil code
BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a uniform law for divorce and alimony. Speaking to Indiatoday.in, Upadhyay explained its link to a common civil code.
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The Supreme Court is considering a petition filed by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay seeking uniform divorce law in India. (Photo: PTI)
India has a common criminal code in the CrPC and the IPC but the civil laws are codified in personal laws that govern people belonging to different religious communities. Now a petition has come before the Supreme Court seeking direction for a uniform divorce and alimony law for everyone.