Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Fields
    Agriculture
    Corruption
    Education
    Environment
    Governance
    Grassroots
    Health
    Law
    Right to Information
  • About Us
  • Videos
  • Resources for Readers
  • Internships
  • Join Us
  • Support GoI Monitor
  • Hindi
Home

Similar Stories

'Current policy on stray dogs has created a hate-filled environment'

Thursday, February 1, 2018
|
Governance
|
By: 
Komal Yadav
Millions of homeless dogs die every day in India. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Despite spending crores of rupees on the birth control programme, the population of stray dogs has been increasing across India resulting in more attacks on humans, especially children, and retaliatory attacks on dogs. Stray dogs are also a great danger to wild animals and livestock in villages and protected areas. A petition currently being heard in the Supreme Court raises many questions...

  • Read more about 'Current policy on stray dogs has created a hate-filled environment'
  • 2 comments
  • Add new comment

'Policing requires wide and numerous reforms'

Sunday, May 3, 2015
|
Governance
|
By: 
Nikita Kohli
Amidst Chaos. Source: Harni Calamur/Flickr

In India, police are trained well, paid minimally, put to odd times and jobs. Yet they remain in a position of power over the rest of the citizens, which is then used to extract money, and other favours. Political control further aggravates the situation. This is why the need for reform of the police force was felt but the reforms were not really acted upon, and if done, it was merely a lip service. Devika Prasad, who works with police...

  • Read more about 'Policing requires wide and numerous reforms'
  • Add new comment

'Slums are a solution not a problem'

Saturday, May 12, 2012
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Two boys on a concrete wall, overlooking rubbish in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum and home to hundreds of businesses defying the myths about poverty. By- NGO MEDAPT

Q It is estimated that by 2050, 54 per cent of Indians will live in cities. But with such a high premium being placed on urban land, how are the cities going to host migrants, especially the poor?

Firstly, that estimate is probably incorrect. Already, as indicated by the 2011 Census, urban growth is slowing down - from 54 per cent in the 1970s to 32  per cent currently even though the Census has

  • Read more about 'Slums are a solution not a problem'
  • Add new comment

'We need to declassify all records about Netaji'

Thursday, December 13, 2012
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
The latest book on Bose mystery by Anuj Dhar

Disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has been the biggest mystery of modern India running for almost seven decades and involving multiple international link ups, national political interests and mysticism. GOI Monitor talks to journalist-turned researcher Anuj Dhar who recently came up with his second book on Bose which tries to clear several doubts

  • Read more about 'We need to declassify all records about Netaji'
  • 2 comments
  • Add new comment

A bridge on the river Kosi

Tuesday, September 2, 2014
|
Governance
|
By: 
Chicu Lokgariwar
A boy stands outside his home on a spur

It is difficult to make small talk with a woman who has lost her all. Khair-un-Nissa had generously invited me to her home for a meal, a curry made of the famously succulent Black Haringhata hen, no less. The curry was special but it was her house that impressed me most. The bamboo and straw structure boasted a fresh coat of clay. The area was so scrupulously tidy that I felt refreshed the minute I entered the courtyard. Normally, I would be...

  • Read more about A bridge on the river Kosi
  • Add new comment

A city wasted and redeemed

Saturday, February 15, 2014
|
Governance
|
By: 
Amruta Mudholkar
Members of SWaCH collecting waste during a festival. Source: SWaCH

Surekha Gaikwad is a high school graduate. She started picking waste along with her mother-in-law after getting married. Till five years back, she would not even bother to dress up as the day would be spent at a hot and filthy garbage bin. “Even if I had a bath in the morning, by midday I was stinking. So I never bothered to stay clean,” she says. But now Surekha wears a nice fresh sari to work, with a rose in her hair. She leads a team of...

  • Read more about A city wasted and redeemed
  • Add new comment

Blowing it on your face

Saturday, October 1, 2011
|
Governance
|
By: 
Hemant Goswami
The tobacco control law has been deliberately made weak.

It is an accident of history that tobacco became a legal product. It would be a fallacy to assume that a product which kills half its consumers was given a legal status by way of logic. When in the beginning of 19th century, tobacco was commercially used for the first

  • Read more about Blowing it on your face
  • Add new comment

Burden of GM food and the farcical BRAI Act

Thursday, October 13, 2011
|
Agriculture - Governance
|
By: 
Devinder Sharma

“We will have 9 billion mouths to feed on this earth by 2050 and there will not be enough food for all of us which is why we need to make technological interventions like GM crop to produce more food.” At a time when food prices are soaring and

  • Read more about Burden of GM food and the farcical BRAI Act
  • Add new comment

Can this burden be bought?

Friday, January 18, 2013
|
Governance
|
By: 
Akriti Gupta
Village women carrying fuelwood back to their homes. Around 26 per cent rural women are engaged in some economic activity. Source: GOI Monitor

Thousands of years have passed, and a woman’s existence is still verified by that of a male in her life. We’ve all heard of the famous saying – “Behind ever successful man is a woman”, and people often say it in passing without realising its significance.

  • Read more about Can this burden be bought?
  • Add new comment

Case of Commons: What has the SC judgement achieved so far

Thursday, June 16, 2016
|
Governance
|
By: 
Shruti Appalla
A herder taking his cows away from the enclosed pasture area in Rajasthan.

Across the world, rapid development restricted to few growth centres has induced a major change in land use. Forests and traditional set up have given way to farm houses, orchards, plantations, industries and residential societies. On January 28, 2011, the Supreme Court gave much needed judicial recognition to the importance of ‘Commons’. Commons can be understood as a community’s natural resources such as forests, wastelands, and water...

  • Read more about Case of Commons: What has the SC judgement achieved so far
  • Add new comment

Cast away for rehabilitation

Monday, May 14, 2012
|
Governance
|
By: 
Dhairya Maheshwari

Somewhere between Alipur and Narela Sub City lies the village of Holambi Kalan. Around 47 km from Delhi's showpiece Connaught Place, this village was chosen for the relocation of families from JJ ( (short for jhhugi, jhompri) clusters on Minto Road and R.K. Puram, two of the most prime areas of the capital.

  • Read more about Cast away for rehabilitation
  • Add new comment

Compulsions of an identity

Thursday, March 7, 2013
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk

March 2, 2013, proved to be a day of symbolic victory for the critics of Unique Identification Number (UID) as the Chandigarh Administration decided to revoke its order making the number compulsory for vehicle registration and issuance of driving 

  • Read more about Compulsions of an identity
  • Add new comment

Delhi government plans to monitor the Internet

Monday, March 12, 2012
|
Governance
|
By: 
Talish Ray
Spy by Tobias Leeger/ Flickr Creative Commons

After a long procedure involving multiple RTI applications and complaint before the Central Information Commissioner, Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), a donor-supported legal services organisation for protection of freedom in the digital

  • Read more about Delhi government plans to monitor the Internet
  • Add new comment

Demonetisation: Why it didn't work for India earlier

Thursday, November 10, 2016
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
The withdrawal of relatively lower denomination notes in 2016 has widened the net, which was also essential considering the huge amount of black money circulating. Source: Pixabay

Cash notes worth over Rs 14 lakh crore have been junked by the government via its order on November 9 to curb black money. Pegged at over Rs 30 lakh crore, black money in India is estimated to be 20 per cent of the GDP. While most are optimistic about this move, many have also questioned if it will be worth the inconvenience people have been put to. Thankfully, we can always look back at history to know if we have done better than before....

  • Read more about Demonetisation: Why it didn't work for India earlier
  • Add new comment

Differently-abled greater security threat: RTI reply

Monday, March 12, 2012
|
Governance
|
By: 
Javed Abidi

As frequency of instances of passengers with disabilities being discriminated by airlines continue to increase alarmingly, the Disabled Rights Group (DRG), India’s first cross-disability alliance, has unearthed a shockingly discriminatory policy in the name of ‘security’. Through a reply to an RTI application

  • Read more about Differently-abled greater security threat: RTI reply
  • Add new comment

Doordarshan's disruptive signals

Sunday, September 28, 2014
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Programme mismatch has been the bane of Doordarshan

A major change has taken over the Indian skies. Gone are the days of aluminium rod antennas decked with torn kites. The small direct to home (DTH) dish antennas of today signify the shift from terrestrial (over the air) transmission to satellite telecast. In India, this also implies easing out of the national public broadcaster Doordarshan (DD). While most would like to believe stiff competition from private channels and lack of autonomy are...

  • Read more about Doordarshan's disruptive signals
  • 1 comment
  • Add new comment

Employment exchange gets out of work

Tuesday, December 13, 2011
|
Governance
|
By: 
Manu Moudgil

Last year, 969 employment exchanges spread across 28 states and seven Union Territories of India registered 6.18 million new job seekers. However, only 0.5 million (8 per cent) of these got a job. This figure officially released by the Union Ministry of

  • Read more about Employment exchange gets out of work
  • Add new comment

Happy In Dependence?

Wednesday, August 10, 2011
|
Governance
|
By: 
Hemant Goswami

India is a polarised country today. Divided on political lines with little room for tolerance to opposite view point. The sanctity of an elected post is often ignored and seen an extension of political affiliation. Political parties thrive and grow at the cost of Indian democracy and help in promotion of an organised lobby of selfish people. The spirit of the Constitution demands that good people contest elections on their own, reach the...

  • Read more about Happy In Dependence?
  • Add new comment

Heading towards a perpetual black hole?

Wednesday, August 10, 2011
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk

The launch of GSAT 12 satellite last month invited much applause with India now having more than 60 satellites in the space. However, the acclaim dies out in face of the delayed benefits of this technological advancement bringing all the efforts of great scientists to a naught.

  • Read more about Heading towards a perpetual black hole?
  • Add new comment

History of reservation in India

Friday, January 11, 2019
|
Governance
|
By: 
GOI Monitor Desk
Protest by Maratha Kranti Morcha for reservation in 2016. Source: Midhanesh/Wikimedia Commons

Parliament recently passed the bill to allow 10 per cent reservation for poor in general category in education and jobs. Many hail the move as a corrective  measure even though a petition has already been filed in the Supreme Court challenging its legality citing that the court had earlier put a cap on reservation at 50 per cent. The history of reservation in India begins much before...

  • Read more about History of reservation in India
  • Add new comment

Share to:
Facebook Google Plus LinkedIn Twitter 

Tweets @ GoI Monitor

Tweets by @GoiMonitor

FB@GoIMonitor

Like us on Facebook
  • Home
  • Fields
  • About Us
  • Videos
  • Resources for Readers
  • Internships
  • Join Us
  • Support GoI Monitor
  • Hindi

 GOI Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The content can be reproduced in any publication free of cost by giving due credit to GOI Monitor or the original source as the case may be. Designed and Maintained by WeAreabout.com