Visitors: 206 I want to express my feelings through Ground Report India. I am happy that someone realize how a few people are using media to spread rumours and gain publicity and popularity of the news channel or news paper. Sometimes they do some inhuman act that can cause lot of pain to someone. I […]
Visitors: 240 Please read the copy of petition filed with the Honorable Supreme Court of India against The Maharashtra State Government and The Secretary and Managing Committee of Premnagar Bldg No. 5 Co-op Hsg Society , Borivali(West), Mumbai-400092. I am very sorry to inform you about very casual and negligent approach of the Maharashtra State […]
Visitors: 270 We must cry foul and blow the whistle! The composition of Central Information Commission shows that the current method of selection completely biased in favour of those residing in Delhi / North India and having central government jobs, especially jobs related to DOPT, PMO and Information Commission. Such biased appointments are inherently unlawful […]
Visitors: 226 The way government currently appoints Information Commissioners is itself an RTI Act violation. Poocho kaise? Section 12(5) specifies: “The Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners shall be persons of eminence in public life with wide knowledge and experience in law, science and technology, social service, management, journalism, mass media or administration and governance.” […]
Visitors: 218 Hon’ble Prime Minister & Chief Ministers, Naxalites or Maoists (One would not know what is the difference between them) appear to have driven home the point that there is widespread hatred and mistrust about the politicians and government officials amongst the people, particularly those belonging to the lower income group. In view of […]
Visitors: 179 The spectrum scandal is in the news again..The central bureau of investigation has raided the offices which comes under the IT and communication ministry. Union cabinet Minister Raja who is the minister in charge of the department has been repeatedly saying that he did what his predecessor did in 2001.So it is obvious […]
Visitors: 205 There is a saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!” If tomorrow’s newspaper announces that former DoPT Secretary A N Tiwari – or anybody else – has been abruptly appointed as Chief Central Information Commissioner, let us shave our heads in shame. It is wrong to arbitrarily […]
Visitors: 214 West Bengal, India The abduction of Officer in Charge of Sankarail police station of West Midnapur district by ‘Maoist’ insurgents and killing two officers of the same police station ended with a positive note while the leader of the said insurgent group, Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenjee directed to let him free after a […]
Visitors: 222 29 October 2009 GRI October-2009-Edition Download PDF file by: Ground Report India (GRI)
Visitors: 269 “ It is strange that the government is speaking of the need to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act, because there is no demand from any quarter for such an amendment. Neither of the two nationwide studies on RTI implementation, conducted by PriceWaterhouse Coopers and NCPRI-RaaG, say that there is a need […]
Visitors: 287 Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and Maharashtra Government has given in to pressures from builders, and made far-reaching changes in existing laws through the back-door. Bypassing the state legislature, they issued GRs (circulars) that negate existing laws and Development Control Regulations (DC Rules). These changes are endangering lakhs of people in high-rise […]
Visitors: 305 West Bengal, India On 05/09/2009 Ms. Halima Bibi including her minor daughter Ms. Kulduma Khatun (age-12 years) and her two minor friends became victims of torture in the hands of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel of Bamnabad BSF camp in a remote village-Char Lalkup, District-Murshidabad, West Bengal near Indo-Bangladesh Border. They were physically […]
Visitors: 265 The paper which was presented in Budapest Hungary by Fr Anto Paul- The conflict context or development context of the Naga polity Nagas are unique people with its culture, people, religion, habitat and worldview and polity but Naga’s context of development or context of conflict and brief history through which it is developing […]
Visitors: 231 West Bengal, India To The Acting Chairman National Human Rights Commission Faridkot House Copernicus Marg New Delhi-110001 15.10.2009 Your Ref.:- Your letter dated 17.9.2009//18.9.2009 in Case no. 240/25/13/09-10/OC/SB-2 Our Ref.:- Our Complaint no. MASUM/NHRC/NM/1624/09 dated 15.6.2009 Sub.:- Reply against decision of the Commission Respected Sir, The Commission vide letter dated 17.9.2009//18.9.2009 communicated us […]
Visitors: 317 Glimpses of ‘An alternative framework for environmental governance’ Or Few Aspects of Self-Help Green Society (SHGS) A Crisis in agriculture and environment is reciprocal to each other. Environmental problem is a global, national and local phenomenon, which is to be addressed in all the three phases – globally, nationally and locally. In matters […]
Visitors: 284 (West Bengal, India) Mr. Shibajit Mondal was gun shot by BSF of Rajanagar on 14-15/3/2009 at about 00.00 hours. He received bullet injury on his abdomen. He was under treatment at Nil Ratan Sarkar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata under Entally Police Station where he succumbed to his injuries on 30/03/2009. Entally […]
Visitors: 345 Papers procured under a Right To Information application by Daphne Warapan, filed on 21st August ‘09 asking for expenditure details of MLA funds, point to blatant misuse of MLA funds by sitting MLA and Congress candidate for assembly elections Ziauddin “Baba” Siddique for 177 Vandre (W). Information obtained under this RTI is for […]
Visitors: 234 Gautam Benegal Filmmaker / Illustrator / Journalist If anyone had ever thought that the Saas Bahu serials plumbed the lowest depths of what our TV channels could do in order to harvest ratings, then they should do a quick reality check. Newer depths of depravity have been discovered and the bar of regression […]
Visitors: 248 Delhi 3 to 5 Oct 2009 Summary of Findings and Recommendations A national meet was organised on the theme ‘What it Means to be a Muslim in India Today’ by Anhad ( Act Now fro Harmony and Democracy, Delhi) in collaboration with Siasat and other organisations Delhi from 3 to 5 Oct 09. […]
Visitors: 300 The Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human rights (PVCHR) has learned that police and government officials have refused to look seriously into a case of murder of social worker in a Jaulan village by Son of corrupt panchayat head. Reliable reports claim that corrupt panchayat head has been bribing police officials to maintain the […]
Visitors: 376 K. Balagopal was not a civil rights activist of Andhra Pradesh but a crusader against any human rights violation in this part of the globe. His untimely death saddened the whole HR community of this country and abroad. Balagopal died at relatively younger age of 52 due to a cardiac arrest in a […]
Visitors: 234 8th October 2009, New Delhi Thousands of members of Delhi Shramik Sangathan from all over Delhi assembled at Mandi House & marched to Parliament against the proposed cash for food scheme by Delhi Government & demanding Universalization of Public Distribution System. The members of supporting organizations like Lok Raj Sangathan, Pragati mahila Manch, […]
Visitors: 230 नमस्कार। इस समय देश के समक्ष जो चुनौतियां हैं, उनसे निपटने के लिए नए रास्ते तलाशने की जरूरत है। अन्य बातों के साथ-साथ यह भी बहुत जरूरी हो गया है कि देश की राजनीति को मूल्यों और मुद्दों की पटरी पर वापस लाने के लिये पहल की जाए तथा देश में भारतपरस्त और […]
Visitors: 308 MUMBAI, 6th OCTOBER ’09: Leading activist Aruna Roy expressed disgust at rampant appointment of bureaucrats as State and Central Information Commissioners (SICs and CICs) through non-transparent procedures. “It violates the principle of checks-and-balances. It is like staffing Human Rights Commission with former CBI officers!” she said. “We must agitate to ensure that no […]
Visitors: 257 Nandini Voice for the Deprived, a Chennai based NGO organised the meeting of college students on “WIDESPREAD DRINKING HABIT AMONGST STUDENTS AND HOWTO SAVE THEM FROM CATASTROPHE “? AT YOUTH HOSTEL, INDIRA NAGAR, ADYAR, CHENNAI-20, Tamilnadu. Thirteen students from different colleges in Tamil Nadu spoke during the meeting expressing their views on the […]