Thursday 11 March 2010 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead

Issues

Fill up police vacancies to take on Maoists: MHA

Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the six Maoist- hit states to fill up police vacancies to take on Maoists

Gender inequality widespread in Asia: UNDP

In Asia-Pacific region, women suffer from some of the world’s lowest rates of political representation, employment and property ownership

Court raps Delhi govt on lack of night shelters

The court directed the Delhi Legal Services Authority's secretary Asha Menon to visit all the night shelters and file a status report by February 17

India's international patent filing dips by 29%

In 2009, India's patent application filing is at 761 against 1,070 in 2008

India says no to Bt Brinjal, for now

Commercial approval for it will be given only after independent test are carried out and it satisfies both public and professionals

'Make offices, websites accessible to disabled'

India has asked all the states and Ministers to make all buildings and websites of their offices accessible for disabled by 2011

Social audit of development schemes necessary

The RTI (right to information) act is the most effective weapon and a deterrent to make them accountable

Contempt notice to Prasar Bharati CEO

The CEO was not following court orders on convening meetings with all members of the Board

India rules out immediate hike in fuel prices

The decision regarding it will be taken only after the Kirat Parikh committee, working on pricing mechanism for transport fuels, submits its report

"Payments under NREGA are getting delayed"

Government has no mechanism to identify whether a person who has got a job card made under NREGA gets a job in 15 days or not

 
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