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The Bharatiya Janata Party government moved two Lok Sabha bills on Tuesday to legislate the Code on Wages 2019 (WC) and the Occupational Health, Safety and Working Conditions Code 2019 (OHSC). The WC seeks to amalgamate and amend the four laws covering minimum wages, payment of wages, bonus and equal remuneration. The OHSC does the…
The National Committee of the IFTU totally opposes the Central Govt.’s moves for privatisation and corporatisation of the Indian Railways, which is both on this Govt.’s self proclaimed 100 day agenda, and was reflected in its first Budget and has been on the wish list of the Corporate sector for a long time. Railway workers…
Press Release Pannalal Surana, President, SPI Summary of Resolutions Passed at the Conference: i) The Party urges the citizens to become fearless and not to be lured by petty allurement. It exhorts the people to mobilise to persuade the election commission to use paper ballot instead of EVM. It also demands electoral reforms like mentioning…
Avijit Pathak “Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction,” said Ivan Illich. It is not easy to remain secure with power. The intoxication of power breeds insecurity. And hence, it is not surprising that each regime of power has its own discourse of education through which…
Shobha R. On May 15, Dadi Kadraka, an activist with the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (the Niyamgiri Protection Council or NSS) which has put up a relentless fight against the corporate destruction of the Dongria Kondhs’ revered god Niyamraja, was arrested from the Muniguda market in Rayagada. Human rights groups and local activists have condemned Kadraka’s…
UN human rights experts (see below for details) have urged the Government of India to prevent the potential eviction of up to nine million people, most of whom are forest dwellers and members of scheduled tribes with an ancestral link to the land and forest. The threat of evictions follows a 13 February order by…
On this riverbank, saints or thieves You’ll know as soon as they talk The character deep within Comes out by the road of the mouth (Kabir, translated by Linda Hess and Sukhvindar Singh) Words are the Casualty The 2019 general elections in India will be remembered for the ugly war of words. It was not…
Written by 64 former civil servants, endorsed by 83 veterans, academics and other concerned citizens. Shri Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner, Shri Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner, and Shri Sushil Chandra, Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India. Sirs, Serious Irregularities in the Conduct of General Elections, 2019 We are a group of former civil servants that…
After a series of 7 public hearings on Bt Brinjal, on February 9 2010, the then minister of state for Environment of the Govt of India announced an indefinite moratorium on introducing Bt brinjal—the first genetically modified food crop that would have been introduced for mass production in India. In June 2019, Monsanto lobbyists announced…
On June 6, 2019, the second anniversary of the Mandsaur firing, in which six farmers were reportedly killed after the police opened fire, thousands of farmers from across the nation, under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (AIKSS), a platform of 208 farmers’ organisations, gathered in Takrawad village, Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh…
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