• Key Facts

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• Disaster & Relief

Mandatory CSR in India: A Bad Proposal-Aneel Karnani

not made in a given fiscal year, the CSR committee has to submit an explanation to avoid being penalized. There is no discussion of what explanations would be legally valid, opening up much room for Corruption and extortion. Given the controversy surrounding the concept of CSR, it is not surprising that the proposed law does not define CSR for the purposes of expenditures. The proposal lists only a few genres of CSR activities: "eradiating

Growth falters as UPA completes 4-years in office -Surojit Gupta

a modest fiscal stimulus it roared back to life and for the next two years notched up growth rates which sparked hopes of sustained rally. But that was short lived as a string of factors ranging from Corruption scandals, a sustained bout of policy paralysis and the Euro zone debt crisis knocked the wind out of the sails of one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Growth has slowed to a decade-low of 5% while industrial output has slowed

Laws for citizens, and by them too -Ruchi Gupta and Nikhil Dey

t, these recommendations would be an important first step. Nevertheless, the recommendations fall short of what is required. Government policies have been left out of the scope of this process. Grand Corruption and loss of revenue for government is often an outcome of flawed policies. This is apparent in the current scams on 2G spectrum and coal block allocation. This exclusion would also allow the government to use the executive route to implement so

'Smart' cards: Jagjit Singh labourer in MP

ingh said. But Swapan Kumar Tiwari, a former employee of FINO who was allegedly sacked after he complained about the anomalies to the company's officials, said: "This is an issue related to Corruption and thorough investigation should be carried out with the help of IT experts to ascertain the facts. I was sacked after I complained about it last June."

UN team sees no protection for whistleblowers in India -Vikas Dhoot

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Whistleblowers, victims, experts and witnesses testifying against or reporting private sector Corruption have no cover under Indian laws, a United Nations' report on the country's compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption has found. India had ratified the pact in May 2011. UN's Office on Drugs and Crime reviewed India's compliance with the aspects of

Age of graft -CP Chandrasekhar

-Frontline Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. IT cannot be verified and may not be true. But, the view that the record of graft and Corruption during the two-term, nine-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the

UPA's 'Bharat smiling' feebly -Subodh Varma

of states, there is wide variation in this figure among them ranging from 58 in Tamil Nadu to just 28 in Uttar Pradesh. Just over 15% of the works taken up were completed in 2012-13. Lack of funding, Corruption allegations, shortage of manpower to administer the scheme and delays in payments are major factors.   Right to information In 2006, the UPA government brought in the right to information so that citizens can get information

Govt forms GoM to insulate CBI from external influence- Sahil Makkar

e an "eyewash". "It's a complete farce. There was no need of setting up a GoM for this. They (government) could have used Rajya Sabha's select committee report on Lokpal (the anti-Corruption ombudsman), which deals with providing autonomy to CBI," said a senior BJP leader who asked not to be identified. The select committee, which had members from all political parties, had earlier suggested that a collegium comprising th

CPM rolls up the rope-JP Yadav

been for abolition of the death penalty in communist countries. China, for instance, scrapped the penalty for 13 crimes in 2011. However, it still puts people to death for non-violent crimes such as Corruption and drug trafficking and for crimes such as forcing a person to donate an organ. According to the latest report of Amnesty International, Syed Zahid Hussain Shah of Pakistan, 36, was executed by lethal injection in China on September 21, 2

Evaluation office for rural development -Elizabeth Roche

real time analysis of the government's social programmes, says Jairam Ramesh At a time when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is facing flak for a series of alleged Corruption scams, the ministry of rural development that has an annual budget of approximately ` 800 billion has decided to go ahead and create an office of concurrent evaluation. The proposal for a concurrent evaluation office (CEO) was approved by