John M.Itty | Goi Monitor

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Honorary Professor at Vichara School of People’s Economics, Mavelikara, John can be contacted at jmitty@rediffmail.com

Curb on multiple attempts in engineering

Monday, May 14, 2012

Education

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GOI Monitor Desk

IITs take no cognisance of multiple attempts or back papers.

On February 10 this year, the technical education department of Rajasthan government came out with a landmark decision. Nobody who has cleared any semester/year of B.Tech or M.Tech in more than one attempts will be eligible for teaching positions at any degree-level government technical institution in the state. With this order, Rajasthan has become the only state with a clear cut policy aimed at improving the quality of teaching by taking...

Teenager ensures fair price

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Right to Information

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GOI Monitor Desk

Bhadresh's campaign forced PDS shops in Gujarat to display stock information. Source: GOI Monitor

At first glance Bhadresh Wamja looks like any other college-going kid wearing bright T- shirts and zooming around on a bike. It's tough to believe that efforts by this 19-year-old forced all fair price shops in Gujarat come under the ambit of the RTI Act

‘Leprosy is still a crime in India’

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Grassroots - Law

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GOI Monitor Desk

Gandhiji giving massage,to a leper patient, the Sanskrit scholar Parchure Shastri, at Sevagram Ashram in 1940. Source: Wikimedia Commons

How can access to education and good healthcare change somebody's life is evident from Suresh Dhongde's success. At one point of time he was staring at possibility of a life wasted. Today, the 35-year-old is a proud recipient of the national award for being a role model in overcoming leprosy. Not only is he helping other leprosy-affected people join mainstream, but also trying to break well-entrenched stereotypes related to the disease. He is...

‘हर बीज एक राजनीतिक बयान देता है’

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Agriculture

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GOI Monitor Desk

बहुत सी परंपरागत फसलें बीमारी से निजात पाने में मददगार होती हैं, जिन्हें प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों में उगाया जा सकता है।

आलू जो कि बेल पर उगता है, चावल को पानी में भिगोने के बाद कच्चा खाया जा सकता है, दलिया (फटा गेंहू) प्राकृतिक रूप से मीठा होता है। यह सब सुनने में भले ही अटपटा लगे। लेकिन हमारे किसान सदियों से यह सब उगाते आ रहे हैं। इनके अलावा, ऐसी बहुत सी फसलें हैं जो कि खासतौर पर बीमारी से निजात पाने में मदद करती हैं और जिन्हें प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों में उगाया जा सकता है। लाल चावल के बारे में आप क्या कहेंगे जिसे इसकी पौष्टिकता के चलते खासतौर पर गर्भवती...

'Anonymity is the basic need of RTI users'

Monday, August 20, 2012

Right to Information

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GOI Monitor Desk

RTI users are increasingly being targeted for exposing wrongdoings in public offices. Through its website, RTI Anonymous group offers a service of filing RTI applications

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