Supreme Court of India has once again passed a judgement which making women and people interested in gender issues happier. It was a case of insurance compensation to a housewife. SC has ruled that compensation can not be lowered simply because she was a house wife and not earning. This great relief to hundreds of thousands of women who sacrifice, compromise or even totally let go of their professional careers and ability to earn for the sake of their children and families. Though they are doing greater valued work, they mostly end being weighed lower because they don't earn and so dont own money. Things often get worse as women get older and market value of their abilities start diminishing.
Though I dont know details of this judgement, it looks a great step forward !
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (a political psty shrtformed MaNaSe) is known for its agenda for the local marathi folks in Mumbai and Maharashtra. MaNaSe is also known for its rowdy methods. So when I read the news "MaNaSe stops shooting of a BigB film', my first reactions was, "Oh No! one more case of sic political vandalism". But as I read the news I was in for pleasant surprise. They had searched and found that many workers in the shooting were foreign national not on working visa. So they went to police, filed a complaint and the police then went and legally stopped the work. Kudos to legitimate activism !
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Indian rivers are routinely polluted very much. Around the cities pollutants are mostly of individual human nature. When a person dies and cremeted, it is tradition to immerse his ash into a river. This is one cause of polluting of river. Maratha Mahasangh of Kolhpaur and adjoining towns came together and pledged to immerse only handful of ash into river and spread the rest in fields. Though I dislike cast based organization, this act must be complimented! It may also not have any significant impact on reducing pollution in that river, but its definitely a step into making people own up for pollution and involve them into improving actions.
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'Rahul Gandhi uses RTI to get information on some actions of Mayawati government' This is a BIG complement to RTI (Right To Information Act) that a political bigwig is using RTI. I also notice a spurt in corruption cases against politicians and beurocrats. Such cases can built up only on the basis of internal information and data, which would have been almost impossible to get before RTI times. Now ALL govermnet, semi-government, public data, information, records, sanctioning is easily avialble to anybody and everybody with simple RTI Application.
Thannk you Anna Hazare, Shailesh gandhi, Arvind kejriwal and many others who have worked very hard to get a powerful RTI Act in place and have contiued the work to get people educated and empoweed with RTI !
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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