City on trial Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan A housing complex in the catchment of Sukhna Lake will affect Chandigarh’s only water body (PHOTOGRAPHS: ANUPAM… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Jitendra Jun 30, 201 The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts are still few and far between The Gram Nyayalaya Act mandated setting up… Continue Reading →
Outsiders in their own land 1 Author(s): Soma Basu @sbasu_in May 15, 2014 | Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights Nirmal Singh, a farmer in Panandhro village, shows limestone in his farmland (Photo: Soma… Continue Reading →
Anupam Chakravartty [1] Issue Date: 2014-2-28 Ministry of Mines and Atomic Minerals Directorate move to curb illegal mining and export of beach sand minerals Last month the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) demanded a separate body to regulate… Continue Reading →
Flawed legislation Author(s): Kundan Pandey , DOWN TO EARTH Dec 31, 2013 | From the print edition Centre’s law to regulate healthcare system faces resistance in many states Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act is silent on patients’… Continue Reading →
pIC- COURTESY- DOWN TO EARTH – ILLUSTRATION BY KARNO GUHATHAKURTA TNN | Dec 9, 2013, 02.41 AM IST PUNE: Health activists and civil society organisations have commended the state health minister’s decision to set up a multi-stakeholder committee to formulate the Maharashtra Clinical Establishment… Continue Reading →
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