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Jurisdiction And Functions Of Lokpal
The Lokpal has jurisdiction to inquire into allegations of corruption against anyone who is or has been Prime Minister, or a Minister in the Union government, or a Member of Parliament, as well as officials of the Union Government under Groups A, B, C and D. Also covered are chairpersons,members, officers and directors of any board, corporation, so...
Suspend senior cop Falguni Patel for “abusing” Dalits
CV News/ Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Jignesh Mevani, Gujarat Dalit rights leader and MLA, has demanded that the state government should immediately suspend Aravalli district's deputy superintendent of police Falguni Patel for allegedly abusing Dalits in Khambisar village after people from the dominant caste stalled a Dalit wedding procession, leading to ...
The highest increases in crimes in eight states with Gujarat
Counterview Desk
In their joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee to meet for the listing of adoption of list of issues at its 126th session, July 1-26, 2019, top Dalit rights organizations have taken strong exception to, among other things, "disproportional application of death sentencing by the judiciary of minorities, such...
Dalit wedding processions row: Rights leaders question Gujarat CM̵...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Martin Macwan, Jignesh Mevani
By Our Representative
Addressing media in the wake of a series of incidents -- in which dominant rural castes stopped Dalit wedding processions to pass through village streets -- rights leaders Jignesh Mevani, an independent MLA of Gujarat state assembly, and Martin Macwan, founder of Gujarat...
LS Candidates with Criminal Background
Criminal Background
· Candidates with Criminal Cases: 170(19%) out of 909 candidates analysed have declared criminal cases against themselves.
· Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 127(14%) out of 909 candidates analysed have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
· Candidates with Declared Convicted Cases: 5 candidates ha...
The government’s performance score on the top 10 voters’ priorities is...
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) commissioned perhaps the largest ever Voter Survey in any country. The survey was conducted between October 2018 and December 2018, prior to the General Elections to the Lok Sabha 2019. It covered 534 Lok Sabha constituencies with 2,73,487 voters participating in this exercise spread among various demogr...
India’s 80% construction sites “unsafe”, deaths 20 t...
Sunday, May 12, 2019
By Rajiv Shah
The Government of India may be seeking to project India’s construction sector as the country’s second-largest employer of the country after agriculture, providing jobs to more than 44 million people, and contributing nearly 9% to the national GDP, yet, ironically, its workforce is more unprotected than any oth...
Congress separated itself from anti-Sikh mob, Modi became friend of ri...
CV News/ Sunday, May 12, 2019
The "Time" magazine, which is making headlines for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi "divider in chief", is surprisingly soft on the Congress for the party's alleged participation in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Pointing out that the country has "a long history of politically instigated sectarian riots, most notabl...
Why did Govt of India maintain ominous silence in PepsiCo case against...
CV News/ Friday, May 10, 2019
PepsiCo India Holdings Ltd, which withdrew their legal suits against the farmers at the Commercial Court of Ahmedabad and the district court of Modasa, have done it under intense public and political pressure, farmers’ rights groups have asserted in a statement, warning, this in no way means that the public campaign...
Why is this Gujarat BJP “heavyweight” so upset with state ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019
By RK Mishra*
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. This is what is hoped in the case of Gujarat minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, whose election victory in 2017 by a mere 327 votes was challenged in the Gujarat High Court by his Congress rival Ashwin Rathod. As the case winds down, all eyes are o...
5 farmers in district court of Modasa today, withdrew PepsiCo legal su...
“Government of India should proactively take up measures to uphold farmers’ rights – We will continue our public campaign to secure this” say farmers rights groups
PepsiCo India Holdings Ltd, after having sought and obtained an early Hearing in its cases against 4 Gujarat potato farmers in the Commercial Court of Ahmedabad and 5 farmers in distr...
Demand to provide midday meal to poor students admitted in private sch...
CV News/ Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Senior Ahmedabad-based activist Mahesh Pandya has demanded that private schools should provide midday meal to poor children who have been admitted in private schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
In a letter to the Midday Meal Commission, Gujarat government, Pandya, midday meal is an important governme...
Scarcity of water in tribal-dominated Chhotaudepur: Gujarat CM asked t...
CV News/ Wednesday, May 08, 2019
In a letter to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, a senior Dalit rights social worker, Kantilal Parmar, has said that the state government should take urgent steps to ensure provision of water in tribal-dominated villages of Chhotapudepur district of south Gujarat.
Pointing out that even handpumps in a large of ...
Atmosphere of “fear” in Gujarat institutes bogs all: Schoo...
By Prof Hemantkumar Shah*
The present education system is a matter of great concern. There is an increase in the establishment of universities since 2001. Currently, there are more than 50 universities, whereas in 2001 the count was only 15. The concern with these newly established universities is there affiliation as private universities.
The la...
As Gujarat govt denies industries discharge polluted water, environmen...
The Gujarat government’s environmental watchdog, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has denied the strong allegation levelled by two top environmentalists, Rohit Prajapati and Krishnakant, that industrial units of Vadodara are polluting groundwater by discharging untreated wastewater. Belonging to the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS), based in ...