Author Archives: SRRF

Technology- Mobile Wallet soon to be a reality

Posted on October 1, 2011 by SRRF

Soon all of us who are used to payment by credit card may have to get used to paying using our mobile phones. Already legal framework is in place to facilitate the same. A customer can transfer up to a … Continue reading →

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Water Conservation

Posted on September 30, 2011 by SRRF

In 2000 Delhi High Court order followed by a notification by the Union Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) had made it mandatory for all buildings with a discharge of more than 10,000 liters of water per day to recycle water … Continue reading →

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Making Community, Owner of its own facilities

Posted on September 30, 2011 by SRRF

MCD is using Bhagidari scheme to involve community in maintenance of colony parks. Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) are allowed to adopt parks belonging to MCD and get plants, fertilizers and funds to recruit gardeners for the maintenance of their neighborhood … Continue reading →

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Decongesting our cities

Posted on September 27, 2011 by SRRF

In a recent move by NDMC in Delhi, it decided to charge parking costs at the Khan Market to discourage use of vehicles at the instance of Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), however the traders took the civic agency to … Continue reading →

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Huge demand for primary teachers

Posted on September 22, 2011 by SRRF

India’s RTE act has brought new challenges. The Act which requires the pupil-teacher ratio to 30:1, the governments across the country need to recruit a large number of teachers. As per the Govt. estimates there is a requirement of 5.1 … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Solid Waste

Posted on September 21, 2011 by SRRF

A new Power Plant, using Private Public Partnership model, is being set up in Okhla in New Delhi which will generate power from solid waste. Once completed, the plant will produce 16 MW of electricity, enough to serve six lakh … Continue reading →

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Railways continue to use Manual Scavengers despite a Ban

Posted on September 19, 2011 by SRRF

Most of us would have seen scavengers manually removing human waste from railway tracks, despite Manual Scavenging being declared illegal way back in 1993 vide Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act 1993. The Railway board either denied … Continue reading →

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Manual Scavenging – Govt. to work in a timebound manner

Posted on September 19, 2011 by SRRF

Despite the practice of manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines being prohibited since 1993*  the practice still continues in several states. As common till date no one has been punished under the Act. As with many laudable legislations implementation … Continue reading →

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Census 2011 – Sex Ratio – 12 worst districts

Posted on September 17, 2011 by SRRF

Continuing with the series of sharing Census data, today’s post highlights some of the worst districts regarding Sex Ratio. For example, while Arunachal Pradesh overall has a sex ratio of 920 but the ratio for Tawang is as bad as … Continue reading →

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Census 2011- Child Sex Ratio

Posted on September 16, 2011 by SRRF

Last few posts indicated the good news of Slow down of population increase and Marginal improvement in sex ratio. However today’s post shows a deeply disturbing set of statistics, i.e., a steep fall in the child sex ratio, which ultimately is … Continue reading →

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