75% Private Jobs for Locals – Pros & Cons of AP Govt’s New Act

  The news about making 75% jobs to local candidates by YS Jagan, CM of AP in the following link raised several hopes and also doubts: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/andhra-reserves-75-private-jobs-for-locals/articleshow/70338174.cms The Hopes: If…

Caste, Constitutional Rigidity & Politics

  Originally published in https://andhranation.wordpress.com Why is caste so important in Indian politics ?? I don’t need to tell anyone as to how important caste calculations are in any Indian…

Senior Citizens – Beyond the Old Age Pension

    Senior Citizens (60 years and above old people) in our country are the most neglected lot.  There are no schemes that guarantee them good returns on their investments…

Minorities in India: Who Decides?

  NOTE: This article was originally published in https://pranasutra.in    In the year 2017, Sri Ashwini Upadhyay, a lawyer and senior BJP leader had filed a PIL in the Supreme Court of India…

The Design of RTE – Part II

  NOTE: This article was originally published in https://pranasutra.in  In the first part of the writeup, we had seen how the RTE Act was constructed to ensure complete autonomy to minority educational institutions…

The Design of RTE – Part I

  NOTE: This article was originally published in https://pranasutra.in  Team Aavakaaya thanks the author N. Hariprasad garu for permitting us to reproduce the article. I would strongly recommend reading this article by…