CITIZENS' ISSUES


Moneylife Digital Team 01 December 2011
Over the past 60 years, the annual per capita water availability in India has fallen 70% to 1544 cubic meter from 5177 cubic meter in 1951 and is expected to further fall to 1,140 cubic meter in 2050 The alarm on the continued availability of sufficient water to all consumers in India, both...

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 For four times the distance and costs less than one-fifth and the fact that there are other amenities the government/municipality needs to finance, it is quite straight forward answer to the question “Is Metro Rail not the answer for India’s urban transportation “India is urbanizing...

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Professor BM Hegde 01 December 2011
 The future of the world depends on a new change in schooling system, thus ushering in an era of sharing, caring and universal compassion—the true religion for the masses "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”...

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Three years have passed by since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in which the country's three most brilliant police officers, Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar were killed. Despite Mr Kamte's wife Vinita establishing through call log records procured under the RTI Act, the negligence...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 November 2011
However BEST is not enthusiastic to start such service even as MIAL is supporting the project Passengers at the Mumbai airport continue to be stranded in the absence of adequate public transport and the constant refusal by auto and taxi drivers. The dearth of pre-paid taxis adds to the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2011
DMK MP Kanimozhi, Karim Morani, Rajeev Aggarwal, Sharad Kumar and Asif Balwa got bail in 2G spectrum case The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam's (DMK) member of parliament (MP) Kanimozhi, Kalaignar TV's managing director Sharad Kumar, Asif Balwa, Kareem...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 November 2011
Gold Sukh promised returns 27 times than the investment in just 15 months and was able to lure many politicians, police officers and businessmen Jaipur-based multi-level marketing (MLM) company, Gold Sukh, has allegedly duped over 1.75 lakh investors for over Rs200 crore. The company promised...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 November 2011
Former bureaucrat EAS Sarma learns that the land was regularised by the state revenue department despite the Lokayukta report which asked the revenue secretary to immediately take action on the matter EAS Sarma, former power and finance secretary to Union government, has written to the...

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Alekh Angre 24 November 2011
Studies show that the fees, paid at civic hospital for treatment, is the biggest impediment for the poor to use the public healthcare facilities The free public healthcare system seems to be of little use for the poor. According to few studies, the user fee, paid by the patient at the time...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 November 2011
The CIC said that since significant amount of public funds are kept in banks and therefore, the public has the right to know how these banks are functioning In another victory for RTI activists, the Central Information Commission has directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to disclose names of...

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With the Maharashtra government, MSRDC and Ideal Road Builders turning a blind eye to curbing accidents on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, MCCIA has reiterated its appeal to the authorities to urgently act upon an accident-prevention campaign (This the second part of the two-part article by this...

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 In the US, one out of every three or four young children are now obese, and generals from the Armed Forces have represented that stricter controls need to be exercised over packaged foods of this sort. Here in India, we have the world’s largest population of diabetics, and much of it is caused...

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Alekh Angre 23 November 2011
RTE provides free and compulsory education for children aged between 6 and 14 years, therefore pre-schools should also be brought under it In order to ensure better quality of early learning among anganwadi children, educationist and non-governmental organisations says that the Right to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 November 2011
The automated collection of toll promises to eliminate waiting time and ease congestion at highway toll plazas The National Highways Authority of India proposes to replace manual toll collection at highway toll plazas with electronic toll collection (ETC) system. CRISIL Research said it...

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It seems unlikely that Vikram Akula’s exit will transform SKS Microfinance into a better-governed and -managed microfinance company. Only time can tell if and whether the exit of Vikram Akula would bring better times to SKS micro-finance, its investors and clients The board of SKS...

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Moneylife invoked the RTI Act last fortnight to find out that Ideal Road Builders has collected about Rs1,200 crore until June 2011 since it took up the 15-year contract of security and maintenance in April 2004. But where is its commitment towards a safe journey, considering the constant...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 November 2011
PFC has published names, complete addresses, telephone or mobile numbers and email IDs of around 1.2 lakh individuals, which raises several questions of privacy and investor protection In yet another instance that proves the government and its units are insensitive to issues of transparency...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2011
The Railways have reduced tatkal booking period to one day before the journey and also barred agents from booking tickets on the Internet from 8am to 10am The Indian Railways have revised the Tatkal (urgent ticket booking) scheme, making it more ‘passenger-friendly’ by reducing the advance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2011
A though-provoking documentary on what the media feeds the masses “When I see a movie getting good ratings, I go watch it. If it turns out to be bad, I lose Rs150 for the ticket. How does paid news affect me then?” A member of the audience asked the panellists after the screening of the...

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 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gave birth to a baby girl bringing unending joy to her family and fans. However, a recent international research shows that sex selective abortion is conducted in wealthy families across India, not so much in poorer homes. An overview Notice this: When it’s a baby boy,...

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