Category: Opinion
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Extant status of Indian prisons
Supreme Court of India, in its judgments on various aspects of prison administration, has laid down three binding broad principles for imprisonment and custody. First, a person in prison does not become a non-person. Second, a person in prison is entitled to all human rights within the limitations of imprisonment. Third, there is no justification…
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Central allocations for minorities reduced drastically
Union budgetary allocations for welfare of country’s minorities in Ministry of Minority Affairs in the General Budget 2023-24 presented by the Finance Minister on February 1, 2023 in Parliament has been reduced drastically by 38 per cent compared to the allocations in the fiscal year 2022-23 (last financial year) from Rs.5020.50 crore to Rs.3097 crore.…
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India on the Republic Day 2023
Republican India on the 74th Republic Day, January 26, 2023, is witnessing how the RSS Pariwar Union Government is keeping in place an electoral façade, using lucre, ill gotten canny, manipulations of satraps, cautionary threat, outright purchase of elected legislators, false propaganda, even more false promises, the hobgoblin of “enemies” within and without endangering “national…
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Centre-State relations take a big hit
Centre-State relations between the opposition ruled States and the RSS Pariwar Union Government have worsened as never before. The much touted, much hyped ‘cooperative federalism’ by the Prime Minister (PM) has taken a big hit since 2014. Institution of Governor is aggressively misused to destabilize opposition (non-RSS Pariwar) ruled State Governments so much so that…
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Abuse of power violates human rights of people
India has a long history of gross abuse of power and deprivation of human rights of its people in the garb of laws and legality. The system of criminal jurisprudence in the country, drawn from its colonial past, is designed to instill fear of authority and subservience to the rulers among the people, now the…
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Undermining public institutions threatens democracy
Dictionaries have defined democracy as a government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by their elected agents (representatives) under a free electoral system, with the practice or spirit of social equality, with a social condition of classlessness and equality and the…
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Ever rising hate speeches in India
Recent hate speeches by a BJP MP and an MLA in Delhi to a mob attack in a mosque in Gurugram by RSS Pariwar goons indicate that a hate wave has gripped the country. With no punitive action or punishment for spewing hate and flouting the rule of law and political silence at the very…
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Growing debt of Indian Railways
Indian Railways (IR) is downhill the sickness path despite part privatization of earning and profitable blue chip assets like the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and remunerative high yielding operational tracks with further depressing signs of growing debt, designed to make it bankrupt and unviable with privatization (corporatization)…
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Accountability of government in Constitution
In India’s system of democratic constitutional governance, all the three organs of the state, the executive (government), legislature and the judiciary are accountable and answerable to ”WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA”. To ensure accountability, the Constitution has envisaged checks. The executive is answerable to the legislature and legislature to the people.The higher judiciary, Supreme Court…
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‘कर्तव्य पथ’ के रास्ते सरकार ने ख़ुद को देशवासियों के प्रति कर्तव्य से आज़ाद कर लिया है
‘ग़ुलामी की एक और निशानी को हमेशा के लिए मिटा दिया गया है.’ दिल्ली के केंद्रीय भाग के बीच से, संसद और राष्ट्रपति भवन के के क़रीब से गुजरने वाली सड़क का नाम राजपथ से बदल कर कर्तव्य पथ करने के अवसर पर प्रधानमंत्री ने यह दावा किया. क्या राजपथ नाम ग़ुलामी के वक्त का…
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Union government orders its employees to hoist flags atop their houses
Union government has ordered all its employees to hoist the national flag stop their houses to mark Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the 75th year of India’s Independence celebrations from August 9-13 to show their love for the country preceding the Independence Day on August 15, 2022 with the customary unfurling of the national flag Tiranga…
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Non-feasibility of uniform civil code!
Successive Union Governments since Independence have engaged with the idea to enact a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to ensure uniform civil code of conduct for all people irrespective of their castes, communities, religions, rites, rituals, customary practices, cultures and over all their diversity pursuant to Article 44 of the Directive Principle of State Policy in…
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Perceptible improvement in LWE situation!
Left Wing Extremism (LWEs), earlier known as Naxalism, is armed rebellion by tribals against the rule of law based system of constitutional democratic governance in the countryconsidered as centuries of cumulative exploitations by the rulers in the form of gradual deprivation of the tribe’s inherent right to Jal (Water), Zameen (Land) and Jungle (Forests) for…
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Infrastructure for combating cyber crimes
States/Union Territories (UTs)have set up 169 cyber police stations across the country to combat ever rising cyber crimes in the country as per a latest report, Data on Police Organisatons for 2020 by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) provides overarching logistic support to…
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New IT rules to tighten free information on social media
Union Government in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has floated a new draft IT rules on its websites to elicit public and users’ opinion/consultation before it is finalized for notification shortly. The new draft rules following the first Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics) Rules were notified in February 2021 as…