अमूमन हर राजा-बादशाह और शासक अपने कार्यकाल में कुछ ऐसा कर जाना चाहता था, जिस कारण इतिहास में उसे खास स्थान मिल जाये. वे इसके लिए खर्च की परवाह नहीं करते थे. उनको पूछना भी किससे था. सरकारी खजाना अपनी जागीर थी. दुनिया भर में शासकों की ऐसी महत्वाकांक्षा या सनक के कारण बनी शानदार दर्शनीय इमारतें आज भी मौजूद हैं. वैसे कुछ राजा जनोपयोगी निर्माण- बांध-सड़क आदि- पर भी खर्च करते थे.
ताजा ओपिनियन पोल के नतीजों से लगता है कि मोदी जी बजरंग बली को रिझाने में सफल नहीं हुए। बजरंग दल को बजरंगबली का चादर ओढ़ाने में लगी भाजपा के लिए कर्नाटक से खबर अच्छी नहीं है। एबीपी न्यूज और सीवोटर के सर्वे में 10 मार्च को होनवाले विधानसभा चुनाव में कांग्रेस सरकार बनाती हुई दिख रही है।
Indian Railways will complete hundred percent electrification of its entire Broad Gauge (BG) routes by the end of this calendar year (2023). Out of a total of 65,269 BG Route Kilo Metres (RKMs) across the country, 58,812 RKMs, equivalent to 90.06 per cent RKMs have been completed as on March 31, 2023. Remaining 6,457 BG RKMs will be completed by December 31, 2023. Work of electrification is going on with full force. Allocation of Rs. 8,070 crore has been provided in the union budget 2023-24 in the Ministry of Railways for completion of electrification, in any case, by March 31, 2024.
India, an ancient civilization, has been home to largest number of superstitions and myths in the world. Indian society, amidst regional variations, has always been very conservative and superstitious. Mindset of people has hardly changed despite great reforms in the 19th and 20th centuries. Average Indian consciousness is mostly clouded by obtrusive superstitions and prejudices. Country presents a bewildering picture about the prevalence and practices of superstitions, myths and illusions.
RSS Pariwar Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has raised Government of India’s concern over the failure of States to implement the Model Jail Manual 2016 for bringing uniformity in the basic principles governing jails of the country. States and Union Territories have been advised to pay special attention to inmates inclined to propagating the ideology of radicalization and those with the propensity and potential to influence other inmates negatively. Radicalised inmates may be housed in separate enclosures to avoid influencing other inmates.
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 for aggravating the suffering already inherent in the process of incarceration.
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. Out of budget estimates of Rs.
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 security” to grab state power and then proceed to coopt and emasculate all the official agencies whose statutory and constitutional writ it (government) is to preserve and protect the constitutional scheme and the
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 the implementation of committed welfare in the election manifestos of the elected state governments either stops or gets slowed.
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 democratically elected government since the Independence, in the scheme of the Constitution of republican India. Draconian laws have been used to suppress the movements of the oppressed and marginalized masses, the peasants, workers, minorities, Dalit and tribal.