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The RTI Act 2005 grants citizens the right to seek information from government. The amended RTI bill was passed by Lok Sabha last Monday the 22nd July and three days later also by Rajya Sabha on Thursday the 25th. The government says that amendments were necessary as certain anomalies needed to be corrected. In support of the RTI amendment the government said It seems the original Act was passed in a hurry in 2005 by the then UPA government which overlooked a lot of things. There are three major controversial amendments to the term of office, salaries and pension of Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and the Information Commissioners (ICs). 1. Before amendment the term of appointment of CIC and ICs was for 5 years or upto 65 years whichever was earlier. Now after amendment the term of appointment will be decided by the Central Government. 2. According to the original Act the salary of CIC was equivalent to Chief Election Commissioner and ICs were paid as much as Electio...

Communal lynching is a new form of hate crime. Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a group. According to a Reuters report, 28th June, 2017, a total of 63 cow vigilante attacks had occurred in India between 2010 and mid 2017, mostly since the Modi government came to power in 2014. In these attacks between 2010 and June 2017, "28 Indians – 24 of them Muslims – were killed and 124 injured", states the Reuter's report. Another analysis  of mob violence and public between January 2011 and June 2017 on Observer Research Analysis, shows that cow-related violence has spiked up dramatically from five 5% of the total incidents (of Lynching or Public Disorder) to over 20 per cent by the end of June 2017. The brutal killing of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri on September 28, 2015 by angry villagers following a rumour that ...

Yes the difference of Rs 1.7 lakh crore i.e Rs 1.7 lakh crore shown more for government earning in the budget proposal than the accurate and latest figures in Economic Survey 2019. Hence a discrepancy. A further discrepancy of Rs 1.5 lakh crore is there in government spending also -- Rs 1.5 lakh crore more in budget proposal 2019 than the actual figure in Economic Survey. It is a matter of concern because the Economic Survey's figure are the updated ones. The entire proposals made by the government for earning revenue and expenditure thereof are now erroneous in the Budget 2019. This way the government will not be able to achieve the target of achieving fiscal deficit also. Now the entire figures in 2019 Budget proposals are false ones - all undependable figures. The government has no option than to present a revised budget. Have the team Niti Aayog and the financial advisors to the government any answer for this unpardonable financial mess of the country? What made t...

Multiclass coalition propelled BJP to power in 2019 as it did in 2014 also. BJP's base swelled due to the welfare delivery of rural housing, gas cylinders, toilet construction. Well, how much the poor, tribals and dalits are benefitted is debatable. Those who benefitted ignited the hope among this poor neglected class to benefit from the delivery system of the government. Challenge has been seen in the realm of economy. All through 2014-19 has been a slow growth. Government failed to meet the expectation of young, educated and aspirational voters from the middle class and lower middle class in urban centres and smaller town seeking better opportunities. Manufacturing failed to pick up. Employment dipped due to poor job market. The fall in income resulted in fall in demand. Fall in demand resulted in fall in production and thereby fall in income. Fall in income resulted in fall in investment - the very basics of economy. So that was the session 2014-2019. But still the quant...