Centre's affidavit came in response to petition by association of lawyers fighting cases on behalf of rail accident victims, who challenged 'rigid' application of compensation rules.
According to an affidavit filed before SC, the ministry of home affairs has earmarked an annual budgetary grant of Rs 20 cr for 3 financial years from 2023-24 to 2025-26 for the scheme.
Governors' partisan actions in opposition-ruled states spark debate on the erosion of constitutional dignity, highlighting the urgent need for reforms to restore federal harmony.
Accused of having sexually assaulted multiple women, MP Prajwal Revanna fled to Germany in April. BJP, in turn, has accused state govt of not taking adequate action when he was in India.
Rather than making it a public cause, if these had been made private causes involving every citizen of the country, some positive results would have been there.
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
I have seen this process first hand and that too in the city where the scam was unearthed in 2019. Let me share that advocates are still using loopholes. Rather than breaking FDs they simply sit on the compensation cases and those are not forwarded until a percentage of compensation amount sought is made to them. It is a an utterly shameful attitude of the “sarkari” system which still keeps behaving like it works for some British babu. What the Center is trying to avoid is just one specific way of scam but then loophole still exists ! It is strange that biometric based disbursal for compensation is not done !
I have seen this process first hand and that too in the city where the scam was unearthed in 2019. Let me share that advocates are still using loopholes. Rather than breaking FDs they simply sit on the compensation cases and those are not forwarded until a percentage of compensation amount sought is made to them. It is a an utterly shameful attitude of the “sarkari” system which still keeps behaving like it works for some British babu. What the Center is trying to avoid is just one specific way of scam but then loophole still exists ! It is strange that biometric based disbursal for compensation is not done !