Background: The Ministry of Law and Justice has made the Draft Mediation Bill, 2021, available to the public in order to solicit input and suggestions from all parties involved. Why a Mediation Bill is required in India: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Strengthening: The government has […]
Context: The following are recommendations given by a Parliamentary panel debating the Personal Data Protection Bill: Limit the government’s exemptions in the current edition by imposing reasonable constraints on how the exemption might be used. Only a “just, fair, reasonable, and appropriate procedure” should exempt […]
Context: Central Government is yet to notify the rules regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. CAA’s objectives is as follows: The CAA’s goal is to offer Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians. Those […]
On the occasion of Guru Parv, the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh ji, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi made a major statement on Sunday, January 9, 2022. From this year onwards, he stated, ‘Veer Bal Diwas’ would be observed on the 26th of December […]
What exactly is AIIB: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is an international development bank tasked with improving social and economic results in Asia and beyond. The Bank’s Membership is made up of the parties to the agreement (57 founding members). Beijing is the bank’s […]
About The Harmonized Guidelines And Standards For Universal Accessibility In India 2021: The new universal accessibility rules recently drafted by the Centre include different areas of the built environment, from the design concept to execution. In December 2021, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) made […]
Background: The Centre recently assured Karnataka that construction on the Mekedatu dam project on the Cauvery river will not begin until the Cauvery Water Management Authority approves the project’s Detailed Project Report (DPR) (CWMA). There are also disagreements between the states of Karnataka and Tamil […]
Context: The Union government told the Supreme Court recently that the caste-based data from the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) was “unusable,” but the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India told the Standing Committee on Rural Development in 2016 that 98.87 percent of the data […]