How Aadhaar legislation will help plug leakages in welfare schemes like PDS

No other project has suffered as much indifference as the one that seeks to provide portable identity to all residents of the country. Questions were raised, criticism poured in from various quarters and court cases followed. Yet, despite seven years of uncertain existence, the Aadhaar Unique Identification Authority of India is close to achieving a rare milestone of issuing unique identity number to one billion people.

Finally, there is going to be a much needed legislation in place to back its existence. With the passage of the legislation, which seems very likely now, the delivery of welfare schemes will get a facelift. Backed by a legislation, the government will have the option of using the Aadhaar Bill platform to launch direct benefit transfer to intended beneficiaries for scores of welfare schemes. Click Here

Permissions given to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living mega event were vague

After thrice rejecting the Art of Living’s mega event, World Cultural Festival, on the bank of Yamuna in Delhi, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has approved it through the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). A copy of the order was also marked to the personal secretary of Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu, by the chief engineer of DDA.

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Why OBC status is not the solution for Jat unemployment

Haryana will take a while, probably few years and couple of thousand crore rupees, to get over the impact of nearly two weeks of agitation by the Jats to press for their demand for quota in government jobs.

But will the inclusion in the OBC category fulfil all their aspirations? Unlikely, if you consider the pace of growth of government jobs in the country. 

Friendship above ideology: An ex-JNU ABVP alum explains why its leaders revolted

Three leaders of JNU’s ABVP unit have resigned to protest the government’s iron-fisted – and ham-handed – response to the entire row.

Pradeep Narwal, Joint Secretary of the JNU unit of ABVP, Rahul Yadav, president of the ABVP unit of JNU's School of Social Sciences (SSS) and its Secretary Ankit Hans quit Wednesday, saying they could no longer countenance being “mouthpieces” of the government. Read More

JNU & sedition: Mad in India

“I decline to be utterly impartial as between the fire brigade and fire," said Winston Churchill once. The government of India has now decreed that some students in JNU are the fire while the government itself is the fire brigade. It has now set out to extinguish this fire with all its might.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi has become the centre of hot political actions these days with the government of the Republic of India locked in a battle with students who have apparently shouted slogans against India.