Publication in: Human Rights

Excerpt: A welfare state governed by the Constitution ensuring welfare for its citizens cannot work without ensuring the Rule of Law which can be understood as equal treatment of all the citizens by the law of the land. For establishing the Rule of Law it is mandatory for a nation to make sure that all its citizens have equal and open access to justice. Download

Excerpt: Citizenship law has been a delicate subject in India ever since independence particularly after large scale movement of people during partition and the recurrent influx of refugees because of domestic instability in neighbouring countries. The Citizenship Act of 1955 has been amended five times until now. Download

Excerpt: The taungya system was devised by the forest department during the colonial rule in the early years of the century along with the policy of reservation of forests by the government, obviously as a means of procuring cheap in fact free labor for laying and protecting new plantations often in place of the newly exploited and clear-felled natural forests... Download

Excerpt: Recently a brutal case of witch hunting was reported by media in August 2015. The tragic incident of lynching of five women, mainly from tribal community, branded as witches by a group of villagers took place at Maray Toli, 2.5 kilometer away from Mandar police station in outskirt of capital city Ranchi in Jharkhand. Usually women were killed in the name of witch hunting in Jharkhand but this time the incident was different. Download

Excerpt: सरकार नव-उदारवादी नीति की राह पर चल रही है और विदेशी निवेश का बढ़ावा इसका प्रमुख हिस्सा है. देश की वर्तमान आर्थिक स्थिति के मद्देनज़र ,एफडीआई को प्रमुख समाधान के रूप में देखा जा रहा है. खुदरा व्यापर अब तक अनछुआ था लेकिन एक ही बार में सरकार ने 51 प्रतिशत विदेशी निवेश की अनुमति दे दी है जिससे देश के लगभग 4 करोड़ खुदरा व्यापारियों के सामने गंभीर संकट पैदा हो गया है. Download

Excerpt: Report of the independent Fact Finding Committee in the matter unlawful arrest and detention and custodial torture leading to the death of Akhilesh Shah, custodial torture of Sanjay Shah, and death of Naqeeb Ahmad Siddiqui due to uprovoked police firing in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, in December 2013. Download

Working of Malnutrition Treatment Centers; An Assessment of MTCs in Rajasthan Excerpt: This report develops an analysis of the situation from field perspectives, to screen the performance of MTCs in treatment of severe acute malnutrition and raise major gaps in management of malnutrition. Download

Excerpt: India is home to 40 percent of the world’s malnourished children and 35 percent of the developing world’s low-birth-weight infants; every year 2.5 million children die in India, accounting for one in five deaths in the world. More than half of these deaths could be prevented if children were well nourished. Download

Excerpt: भारतीय संसद के 15वें लोकसभा चुनावों के कार्यक्रम की औपचारिक घोषणा निर्वाचन आयोग द्वारा कर दी गई है. किसी भी लोकतंत्र की दृढ़ता इस तथ्य से परिलक्षित होती है कि उस लोकतंत्र के नागरिक कितने सशक्त हैं. नागरिकों की लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था में सहभागिता जितनी अधिक होगी, उस देश का लोकतंत्र भी उतना ही सशक्त होगा. Download

Excerpt: ग्रामीण भारत में आजीविका की सुरक्षा के मद्देनज़र राष्ट्रीय रोज़गार गारंटी अधिनियम एक महत्त्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाता है. परन्तु पिछले अनुभव और गंभीर अनियमितताओं की निरंतर आने वाली ख़बरें यह प्रश्न उठाते है की वास्तविक स्वरूप में नरेगा किस हद तक लोगों को आजीविका और सुरक्षा प्रदान कर रहा है. NREGA - Delay Payment