| Description |
182 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- The Indian Parliament and the Grammar of Anarchy -- Deepening Disparities and Divides: Whose Growth is it Anyway? -- Access to Justice: State of Indian Judiciary -- Local Governance: Hopes, Promises and Performance -- Looking Ahead -- 1. The Indian Parliament and the Grammar of Anarchy -- Introduction -- Institutional Dimension -- Inside the Parliament -- The Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: Recognising Historical Injustice -- Whose Questions, Whose Answers -- Parliamentary Protocol -- Office of Profit -- Cash for Questions -- Operation Chakravyuh -- Criminalisation of Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes and Annexures -- 2. Deepening Disparities and Divides: Whose Growth is it Anyway? -- Uneven Impact of Growth -- Policy or Absence of Strategic Goal -- Employment¿How Inclusive is Growth? -- Trends in Employment -- The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme -- Agricultural Marketing Reform and Commodity Futures Market: The Growth Strategy of Indian Agriculture -- Performance of Indian Agriculture -- Farmers¿ Suicides -- Reforms in Agricultural Markets and Commodity Futures Markets -- Health Inequities in India¿Are We Closing the Gap -- Health Status -- Health Infrastructure and Utilisation of Health Services -- National Rural Health Mission: A New Step Towards Health for All -- Some Observations on National Rural Health Mission -- Right to Information¿Has It Worked? -- Reforms and Regional Development: The Changing Nature of Centre¿State Fiscal Relations -- SEZ Policy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward -- Civil Society, Private Business and Government Partnerships: The New Mantra -- Notes and Annexures -- 3. Access to Justice: State of Indian Judiciary -- I. Mapping Judicial Response through Court Verdicts -- Civil Rights, Political Accountability and the Courts -- Rights of Children of Women Prisoners: SC Urges Revamp Jail Manuals, Pass Necessary Legislations -- Custodial Torture of a Tribal: Indictment of Police Authorities and Award of Compensation -- Preventive Arrest Balancing National Security with Individual Freedom -- Direct Prosecution of Public Servants, Including Ministers -- Education and Establishing Educational Institutions: Scope of Fundamental Rights -- Gram Panchayats and Functionaries Appointed by Government -- Labour Rights -- Social-Economic Rights and the Courts -- No Constitutional Guarantee of Employment -- ¿Foundational Value¿ of All Fundamental Rights Asserted -- Socialism a ¿Basic Feature¿, Privatisation in Policy Domain!: Supreme Court -- No Preferential Public Employment for the Displaced -- Legality of SHGs¿ Involvement in ICDS Upheld -- The Mumbai High Court Judgement on Farmers¿ Suicides: Some Open Questions -- Environment, Development and the Courts -- Aravalli Hills¿ Case: Court Appointed Committees at the ¿Business¿ end¿ -- Reconciling Competing Claims of Protecting Tanks and Housing -- The Supreme Court Explains the ¿Public Trust Doctrine¿ Further -- A Decision in Compromising Context: the DDA Case from Delhi -- Women¿s Right to Forest Produce: Madras High Court -- Enforcing Water Supply in a City: Kerala High Court -- Ii. The State Of The Judical System -- Specific Issues on Judicial Accountability -- National Judicial Council on the Anvil -- Judicial Corruption and Whistleblower Policy -- Dealing with Abuse of PILs -- Arrears, Delay and Dealing with them -- Alternatives to Court Adjudication -- Status of Fast Track Courts -- Justice for All and the Need for ¿Demand Orientation¿ -- Gram Nyaylayas Being Set up through a New Law -- The Launch of the ¿Project Combat¿ -- Making Legal Aid Work: History Suggests the Need for a Decisive Will -- Notes and Annexures -- 4. Institutions of Local Governance: Hopes, Promises and Performance -- People¿s Participation: People¿s Council and Elections to Local Governments -- Gram Sabha -- Elections to Local Governments -- Building Capacities of People in Panchayats -- Institution Building: Trinity of Local Institutions -- Devolutions to Panchayats and Municipalities -- Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) -- Delivery of Development: NREGA and JNURUM -- Conclusion -- Notes and Annexures -- Annexures -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- The Indian Parliament and the Grammar of Anarchy -- Deepening Disparities and Divides: Whose Growth is it Anyway? -- Access to Justice: State of Indian Judiciary -- Local Governance: Hopes, Promises and Performance -- Looking Ahead -- 1. The Indian Parliament and the Grammar of Anarchy -- Introduction -- Institutional Dimension -- Inside the Parliament -- The Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: Recognising Historical Injustice -- Whose Questions, Whose Answers -- Parliamentary Protocol -- Office of Profit -- Cash for Questions -- Operation Chakravyuh -- Criminalisation of Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes and Annexures -- 2. Deepening Disparities and Divides: Whose Growth is it Anyway? -- Uneven Impact of Growth -- Policy or Absence of Strategic Goal -- Employment¿How Inclusive is Growth? -- Trends in Employment -- The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme -- Agricultural Marketing Reform and Commodity Futures Market: The Growth Strategy of Indian Agriculture -- Performance of Indian Agriculture -- Farmers¿ Suicides -- Reforms in Agricultural Markets and Commodity Futures Markets -- Health Inequities in India¿Are We Closing the Gap -- Health Status -- Health Infrastructure and Utilisation of Health Services -- National Rural Health Mission: A New Step Towards Health for All -- Some Observations on National Rural Health Mission -- Right to Information¿Has It Worked? -- Reforms and Regional Development: The Changing Nature of Centre¿State Fiscal Relations -- SEZ Policy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward -- Civil Society, Private Business and Government Partnerships: The New Mantra -- Notes and Annexures -- 3. Access to Justice: State of Indian Judiciary -- I. Mapping Judicial Response through Court Verdicts -- Civil Rights, Political Accountability and the Courts -- Rights of Children of Women Prisoners: SC Urges Revamp Jail Manuals, Pass Necessary Legislations -- Custodial Torture of a Tribal: Indictment of Police Authorities and Award of Compensation -- Preventive Arrest Balancing National Security with Individual Freedom -- Direct Prosecution of Public Servants, Including Ministers -- Education and Establishing Educational Institutions: Scope of Fundamental Rights -- Gram Panchayats and Functionaries Appointed by Government -- Labour Rights -- Social-Economic Rights and the Courts -- No Constitutional Guarantee of Employment -- ¿Foundational Value¿ of All Fundamental Rights Asserted -- Socialism a ¿Basic Feature¿, Privatisation in Policy Domain!: Supreme Court -- No Preferential Public Employment for the Displaced -- Legality of SHGs¿ Involvement in ICDS Upheld -- The Mumbai High Court Judgement on Farmers¿ Suicides: Some Open Questions -- Environment, Development and the Courts -- Aravalli Hills¿ Case: Court Appointed Committees at the ¿Business¿ end¿ -- Reconciling Competing Claims of Protecting Tanks and Housing -- The Supreme Court Explains the ¿Public Trust Doctrine¿ Further -- A Decision in Compromising Context: the DDA Case from Delhi -- Women¿s Right to Forest Produce: Madras High Court -- Enforcing Water Supply in a City: Kerala High Court -- Ii |
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The State Of The Judical System -- Specific Issues on Judicial Accountability -- National Judicial Council on the Anvil -- Judicial Corruption and Whistleblower Policy -- Dealing with Abuse of PILs -- Arrears, Delay and Dealing with them -- Alternatives to Court Adjudication -- Status of Fast Track Courts -- Justice for All and the Need for ¿Demand Orientation¿ -- Gram Nyaylayas Being Set up through a New Law -- The Launch of the ¿Project Combat¿ -- Making Legal Aid Work: History Suggests the Need for a Decisive Will -- Notes and Annexures -- 4. Institutions of Local Governance: Hopes, Promises and Performance -- People¿s Participation: People¿s Council and Elections to Local Governments -- Gram Sabha -- Elections to Local Governments -- Building Capacities of People in Panchayats -- Institution Building: Trinity of Local Institutions -- Devolutions to Panchayats and Municipalities -- Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) -- Delivery of Development: NREGA and JNURUM -- Conclusion -- Notes and Annexures -- Annexures |
| Notes |
Vols. for 2003- cataloged as a serial in LC. DLC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
India -- Politics and government -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127414
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| Author |
Social Watch (Organization)
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| LC no. |
2007021787 |
| ISBN |
0761936416 (paperback) |
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8178298066 (India-pbk.) |
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9780761936411 (paperback) |
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9788178298061 (Indiapbk.) |
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