Amita Singh

Put the cost of superfluous litigation on bureaucrats

January 2, 2021

Teachers from Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) as well as from Central universities (CU) have been waiting for the implementation of judicial orders on conversion of CPF to ‘GPF with Pension’. Cases have been piling in several High Courts and also in the Supreme Court. The argument on an oft-repeated logic dulls...

THE FARMERS’ AGITATION AND JUDICIAL OVERLOAD

December 24, 2020

Bad governance overburdens the judiciary with unnecessary and avoidable litigation. Within a fortnight, two Supreme Court benches—the first led by Justice Nageshwar Rao and the second headed by Justice Sanjay K. Kaul—indicted the government for repeatedly ignoring directions given to it by constitutional administrative bodies like the CAT on providing...

The great transition of country’s farms

December 18, 2020

The farmers continue to protest at the gates of the capital city and the government is unrelenting. What price would each side pay and is it going to be just their exclusive loss or loss for the whole nation? Whenever any government encounters this situation, it gracefully takes a few...

Why farmers are up in arms against farm laws

December 10, 2020

Farmers continue to be unrelenting. Their camps are well organised and the government should be able to see that this vast stream of ex-servicemen farmers are well trained to handle teams in deserts as well as upon glaciers. Sensibility demands that any confrontation laced with the repetitive logic of anti-national...

How Centre can deal with farmers without getting into confrontation

December 3, 2020

The unrelenting farmers huddled up valiantly at the gates of Delhi on freezing December nights prompt us to revisit the three farm Bills. These Bills had become Acts in less than a month’s time in September this year but due to their sharp and radical break from the past some...

Apocalypse at our coasts

November 26, 2020

It is almost three months since the Coastal Clean-up Day oath-taking ceremonies in September when “a trash-free coastline” was highlighted as the key task of a frontline environmental brigade of the government. Eight Indian beaches complying with the stringent Blue Flag certification criteria were recommended by the Centre for final...

Significant lessons from Swachh Bharat survey

August 27, 2020

The most reasonable way to find out the impact of any public policy is to undertake a regular evaluation of public programmes. The “Swachh Sarvekshan” (evaluation of Clean India Mission) which started in 2016 has proved to be a lifeline of the Modi government’s best programme, ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’, and...

Illegal constructions, unethical demolitions

August 20, 2020

Delhi has been waterlogged again after less than an hour of a downpour. Kerala, Assam and Bihar are flooded too and Mumbai, like many other cities, continues to pay the price for illegal constructions. Ironically, the most beautiful season of monsoon, which is still celebrated across traditional India as a...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: From the nuclear ashes

August 7, 2020

Two of the most vibrant Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were bombed by American Air Force on the 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. An average youngster now may not believe this as the two countries share an unmitigated friendship today. These bombings killed more than 166,000 and 226,000 people...

Analysing the moral dilemma of existence

July 30, 2020

The legacy of moral dilemmas that a community faces to achieve what Hegel expressed as “the fullness of moral autonomy” is unending. Recently the JNU animal welfare community encountered one such difficult dilemma about who has a greater right to exist, the dogs or the jackals? The National Animal Birth...

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