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‘Leprosy is still a stigma in India’

Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Grassroots - Law
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By: 
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 fighting against several laws and rules which discriminate against leprosy patients.

 

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'Anuradha's case has fueled public interest in patients' rights'

Thursday, January 23, 2014
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Law
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By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Anuradha Saha

Dr Kunal Saha's wife Anuradha died due to medical negligence in 1998. He pursued the case for 15 years through various consumer courts, MCI, high court until Supreme Court passed a historic order three months back. It not only awarded the highest compensation so far in a medical negligence case but also questioned the treatment of doctors, a first in Indian legal history. Here Dr Saha talks about the shortcomings in present Indian law and his plans to help other victims of medical negligence.

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'Chennai is not water-starved any more'

Friday, June 10, 2016
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Environment
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By: 
P V Durga
Dr Raghavan at the Rain Centre.

It's not without reason that the Third World War is predicted to be triggered by water scarcity. The numbers themselves give us enough reason to be worried- by 2025, 60 per cent of India is expected to be living in towns and cities. Bore wells are getting deeper, urban areas brimming with population, and some already suffer from water shortage. However, success stories of humble organisations like the Rain Centre in Chennai let the results speak for themselves, and keep hope alive. Chennai owes the success of its rainwater harvesting to Dr. Raghavan, and the work done through his Rain Center. 

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'Most cases of humiliation go unreported'

Monday, March 12, 2012
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Law
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By: 
Dhairya Maheshwari

The fact that differently abled want equality instead of charity is rarely acknowledged. 

Javed Abidi, the convenor of Disabled Rights Group, and a vocal activist who has been at the forefront of disability revolution in India, talks to GOI Monitor about the present state of affairs and lacunae in laws 

Q. How do you react to instances of discrimination against the differently-abled,...

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'Uniqueness value of forest is irreplaceable'

Wednesday, October 2, 2019
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Environment
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By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Valuation of ecosystem is gaining ground.

A recent study by IIFM found that 10 select tiger reserves of the country provide economic benefits worth Rs 5.96 trillion. Globally, efforts are being made to assess the benefits of conservation on economy and various methods and formulas have been devised to evaluate these aspects. Critics, however, believe that ecosystem valuation can lead to commodification of nature and its sale to the highest bidder. We talk to Dr Madhu Verma, lead researcher of IIFM study and an expert in field of ecosystem valuation.

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'हमने पानी का स्वभाव ही बदल दिया'

Monday, January 25, 2016
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Environment
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By: 
Vandana Gupta
वाराणसी में गंगा नदी. स्त्रोत: इंडिया वाटर पोर्टल

नदी का विज्ञानं क्या है और बढ़ते जल प्रदूषण , बाढ़ और सूखे के संदर्भ में यह कहाँ बैठता है? बता रहें हैं प्रसिद्ध पर्यावरणविद् और लेखक अनुपम मिश्र। यह व्यख्यान उन्होंने 28 नवंबर, 2015 को नई दिल्ली में जल नीति विशेषज्ञ स्व: रामास्वामी आर अय्यर की स्मृति में दिया । ‘सबको पानी’ के नारों से ले कर बड़ी वाटर वर्क्स की योजनाओं तक, अनुपम जी पानी से जुड़े सभी सामाजिक और राजनीतिक आयामों को छूते हुए नदी के अविरल स्वभाव को चित्रित करते हैं 

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12% of India prone to landslides, 264 killed in 2019

Sunday, October 18, 2020
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Environment
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By: 
Manu Moudgil
Landslide during Uttarakhand disaster 2013. Diariocritico de Venezuela/Flickr

Besides heavy rainfall, human activities such as construction of roads, buildings and railways, mining and quarrying, and hydropower projects damage hilly slopes and impact natural drainage by removing soil and vegetation, loosening soil and gravel and making the hills more susceptible to landslides. In India, 420,000 sq km, or 12.6% of the total land, is landslide prone. Last year, 264 people died in landslides and over 65% of these fatalities happened in the Himalayas and the Western Ghats

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A Generation in Peril. How Climate Crisis is Impacting Childhood

Monday, January 11, 2021
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Environment - Governance - Grassroots
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By: 
Satyaki Baidya

The impact of climate crisis on people across the world is highly disproportionate but no other group is as vulnerable as children in low income families of developing countries. Children are not emotionally and physically capable of understanding the dangers during extreme weather events and are dependent on adults for their survival. They are more susceptible to water and vector borne diseases, malnutrition and they are forced into labour due to economic challenges induced by climate crisis. 

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Amit Jethwa case: A ray of hope for slain RTI activists

Sunday, July 7, 2019
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Law
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By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Amit Jethwa was shot dead for opposing illegal mining  Source: Jignesh Jethva/Wikicommons

Conviction of former BJP MP Dinu Solanki and six others in murder of Right To Information (RTI) activist Amit Jethwa is a victory of Indian justice system. The country has seen 83 murders and 165 assaults on RTI activists since the Act came into force in 2005, says the mapping exercise being done by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). In this scenario, the conviction in Amit Jethwa case holds out hope for many families of activists killed over seeking information

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Amit Jetwa case: Can we expect a fair probe?

Friday, October 12, 2012
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Law
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By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Amit Jethwa was shot dead for opposing illegal mining  Source: Jignesh Jethva/Wikicommons

Khamba is a small village on the edge of Amreli district in the south east region of Gujarat. Proximity to the coastline and world famous Gir forest in neighbouring Junagarh district underscores the need for environment protection of the region

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Anupam Mishra: The Gandhian I know

Tuesday, December 27, 2016
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Environment
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By: 
Manu Moudgil
Image Source: TED talks

Going by his fame, I had imagined somebody with people running around him, at least a couple of computers on display and cell phones caroling frequently. But here was a man working without a cellphone or a computer, surrounded by letters people wrote to him. A couple of wooden almirahs adorned with old postcards and images of famous personalities from Gandhi ji to Sunita Narain, stood in his room. Gandhi Marg, the bi-monthly periodical Anupam ji brought out, was another extension of his personality. It does exceptionally well to make Gandhian philosophy relevant for today’s world. 

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Biodiversity in danger, is anyone listening?

Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Environment
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By: 
Manu Moudgil

August 12, 2011: The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) decides to take legal action against multinational seed firm Monsanto for accessing local varieties of eggplant and using it to develop genetically modified bt brinjal. Though the action may appear 

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Birds across India are going down, thanks to cities

Sunday, April 12, 2020
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Environment
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By: 
Shreeti Shubham
Peacock is one bird species which is increasing. Source: Shiv's fotografia/Wikimedia Commons

Birds are declining significantly with 52 percent of species showing clear declines over the past decades, said a new report State of India’s birds 2020. The report analysed 867 bird species from over 10 million observations collected by over 15,500 birdwatchers across the country. It also identified 101 species with high conservation needs. The take-home message is that urbanisation is the biggest culprit behind avian decline. Most of our common birds like house sparrows and bulbuls are declining

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Cashing in on the climate change debate

Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Environment
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By: 
Soumya Dutta

At the confluence of Subarnarekha river in Orissa, the average fish catch has fallen by 20-30 per cent over the past few years while input cost to run a power boat and maintain a good net has risen. In 2008 winter, standing crops in 16 districts in Rajasthan were damaged

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Censuring the collapse

Saturday, May 12, 2012
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Environment
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By: 
GOI Monitor Desk

Image 1: More  than  30  bulldozers  and  100  JCBs  ply incessantly on a hill in Murbad tehsil of Maharashtra, excavating a huge foundation and simultaneously levelling the land to build a dam for which forest clearance has not been sanctioned yet. The project 

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Chennai gets another chance at waste management

Monday, July 11, 2016
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Environment
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By: 
P V Durga
A scene outside the ever-crowded Kottur Market in Chennai. Source: India Water Portal

The Chennai floods of December 2015 had little to do with nature’s fury and more about city’s flawed urban planning and decades of improper garbage management. Chennai generates between 4,500- 4,800 tonnes of waste every day, and about 1.8 million tonnes a year. However, the city seems to be learning its lessons pretty quickly, and the effort of some responsible citizens has culminated into the Plastic Waste Rules 2016, and the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016. These rules have, for the first time, recognised the informal sector as a big player in waste management. 

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Data protection bill: Ruse of security

Friday, July 10, 2020
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Law
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By: 
Anushka Sharma
Security agencies can easily spy on personal online information. Source: GOI Monitor

Indian government promised that it will come up with a robust data protection regime but the draft personal data protection bill tabled in Lok Sabha in December 2019 did not instill confidence. Experts pointed out that the bill grants exemptions to the government to collect personal data on grounds of prevention and detection of crimes, without any judicial oversight. The bill also proposes a government-controlled Data Protection Authority which was expected to be an independent regulator

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Dead end for eco tourism

Monday, June 20, 2011
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Environment
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By: 
GOI Monitor Desk

There is a strong perception that the crisis of policy implementation runs deep across all the levels of governance from the Union to the State and further to the local government level. This perception is reinforced in the recent findings of the Comptroller and Auditor 

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Deceived: The water carriers of Kangra

Wednesday, December 24, 2014
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Environment - Grassroots
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By: 
Manu Moudgil
The distance between community and its resource leads to disaster in the long run.

Man has always been on quest of building new things. Even when there were no big machines and qualified engineers, the world had expert builders who shaped the earth into various forms to meet needs of the society. Kuhls of Himachal Pradesh are one such example of engineering brilliance. Kuhl is name given to a channel which carries glacial melt through gravity from nearby streams to the fields thus making irrigation possible even on steep hills. Kangra valley has the most extensive network of kuhls dating as far back as 17th century.

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Digging deep, fetching a nought

Monday, February 13, 2012
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Environment
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By: 
Himanshu Thakkar
Parineeta Dandekar
Underground water storage systems like these should be given more importance. Source: GOI Monitor

National water policies are extremely important legal and institutional tools as they reflect the basic intent and direction that the government is planning to take regarding water resources. To ensure that this is a direction acceptable and beneficial to all, open

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