Category Archives: Social Issues

Financial inclusion – making progress but still miles to go

Posted on January 20, 2014 by SRRF

Crisil, the rating agency has developed a financial inclusion index for India’s districts. The Index is called INCLUSIX. It is a ready reckoner on how the states and the districts have performed on financial inclusion. It measures achievements on basically … Continue reading →

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Manual Scavenging – New Act on Anvil

Posted on February 18, 2013 by SRRF

Govt. introduced the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012 in Parliament during Monsoon session. Previous Act of 1993, hardly made any dent in stopping or even minimizing the practice. This is demonstrated from the fact … Continue reading →

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More than 350 million remain without electricity in

Posted on January 5, 2013 by SRRF

Recently Prime Minister announced ‘Power for All’ in 5 years time. Well let us hope the Govt. would be able to keep its promise, as its earlier promises have not kept apace. Today there are still more than 1 lakh … Continue reading →

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Representation to Justice Verma Commission on sexual crime submitted by SRRF

Posted on January 3, 2013 by SRRF

Analysis and suggestions for reducing sexual crimes in the country While giving a snapshot data provided by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) states that from 1971 (2487) till 2011 (24206), there has been an increase of 873% in registered rapes, … Continue reading →

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Bureaucracy becoming more representative

Posted on November 30, 2012 by SRRF

As per a govt publication, representation of SCs/STs has gone up remarkably in various levels of civil service measured over a period of 43 years. SCs Group A Group B Group C Group D 1st Jan 1965 1.64% 2.82% 8.88% … Continue reading →

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Can we make difference to ‘Nakushis’

Posted on September 22, 2012 by SRRF

Injustices towards girl children are well documented to be repeated here. While Maharashtra has been struggling with a declining child sex ratio and is ranked among the five worst states in the country. The reasons are the same as elsewhere: … Continue reading →

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Latest Steps at Railways to improve Sanitation on Trains

Posted on May 29, 2012 by SRRF

Further to our last post on the topic that Open Discharge Toilets is costing Indian Railways more than Rs 350 crores (see http://www.srr-foundation.org  under Section on Social Issues), Indian Railways has now decided to launch a train, Bundelkhand Express, with … Continue reading →

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Friendly measures to keep Railways clean

Posted on March 31, 2012 by SRRF

The Open Discharge toilets are costing the India Railways a staggering Rs 350 crore a year because of corrosion of tracks by night soil. The idea of green toilets has often been discussed in the past, but has not made … Continue reading →

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50 % Indians have mobiles, but defecate in the open

Posted on March 20, 2012 by SRRF

According to the Census 2011 data, nearly half of the country’s population does not have a bathroom at home and defecates in open places, but 63.2% people own mobile phone or have a telephone connection. Top 3 States having no … Continue reading →

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Allocate a portion of the park for children

Posted on March 13, 2012 by SRRF

With neighbourhood parks turned into gardens and colony lanes lost to parking, children across the city are left with no space to play in. It is the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) – representative bodies – that have taken the lead … Continue reading →

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