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NCPRI said that it had sent a detailed analysis on the draft Bill, highlighting issues such as changes made to the RTI Act and the lack of independence of the oversight body. But the Bill continues to suffer from the same problems.
The NRF Bill, 2023 seeks to replace the publicly funded mechanism of research support to the scientific community through the Science and Engineering Board Act, 2008 with a mechanism expected to be largely directed by the funds available through corporate sector and philanthropic foundations.
If an amendment to a 54-yr-old law is passed by Parliament in its ongoing session, you will not be able to—without a birth certificate—enrol for education, get a driving licence or passport, be a voter, get married, get a government or public-sector job. It will make life harder for millions.
While the Bill does not grant any major social security benefits, except a grievance redress mechanism, it creates a framework for future schemes through the creation of a dedicated welfare board.
The government claims that the PM’s health insurance scheme has ‘saved crores of families’ from such expenditure. But there are no data to support this claim, and studies indicate India’s most marginalised people are not benefitting, while insurance companies are.
To be indigenous is to be severely marginalised in economy, politics, institutionalised knowledge, and institutionalised religion.
Gandhi’s thinking on caste must be frameworked within his opposition to capitalist modernity and its destructive effects on the peasant. His ambivalences on caste owe to his efforts to integrate his idealized philosophical stances with his responses to the contingencies of the freedom struggle.
On Saturday, over 500 policemen entered the campus of Sarva Seva Sangh, Varanasi, forcefully evicted residents, threw books and furniture out in the rain, and left the employees jobless and homeless, even while a civil suit challenging the eviction is pending in court.
Right-wing politics has been using this tactic since its inception — create a sense of insecurity among the majority community that they are falling in numbers, losing out their resources to ‘encroachers’, and are in direct attack from the ‘violent’ minority.
In public universities, a candidate’s excellence is no longer a guarantee for appointment as a teacher. They need to have the backing of a Sangh parivar organisation.
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