About the scheme Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) aims for integrated development of selected villages having more than 50% Scheduled Caste (SC) population through implementation of existing scheme of Central and State Governments in a convergent manner and by …
Last month, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that the Covid-19 pandemic would lead to a major increase in human trafficking. India’s Home Ministry responded by issuing an advisory to its state governments earlier …
About Ayushman Bharat Ayushman Bharat is an attempt to move from sectoral and segmented approach of health service delivery to a comprehensive need-based health care service. Ayushman Bharat adopts a continuum of care approach, comprising of two interrelated components, which …
Context The Supreme Court recently upheld that the relaxations given to SC/ST extends to the disabled persons. About the case: The petitioner Aryan Raj who is intellectually challenged to the extent of 50 percent had applied for a diploma course …
Pandemic- An Urban crisis The novel coronavirus pandemic has largely been an urban crisis so far, with megacities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai accounting for most of the COVID-19 positive cases. Indian cities are not only facing a …
What’s in the news? The Supreme Court recently confirmed that persons suffering from disabilities are also socially backward and entitled to the same benefits of relaxation as Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates in public employment and education. Constitutional provisions for SC/ST …
What’s in the news? Development of scientific temper and spirit of enquiry by education is important and right to education is more than a right, said former Chief Justice Dipak Misra while addressing a webinar conducted by the Delhi Metropolitan …
Context: India’s less-privileged workforce during the lockdown have highlighted the massive scale of falling incomes and loss of means of livelihood. Specific policy measures can reverse the lockdown-created trauma and stop it from snowballing into chronic poverty. Issues with poverty …
Context: “We… do not have government by the majority. We have a government by the majority who participate.”- Thomas Jefferson Mandate of Election Commission of India (ECI): Ensuring that every Indian who is eligible to vote can do so must …