Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Rajnath Singh asks Railway Ministry to let passengers file FIRs online
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday urged the Railway Ministry to introduce a facility that would allow train passengers to register First Information Reports (FIRs) online. He said disputes over jurisdiction sometimes led to harassment of ordinary people. He was addressing a national conference on railway security. The case for online FIRs Singh explained that at present a passenger who faces a problem on a train has to go to a Government Railway Police (GRP) station to lodge a complaint. The case is then passed on to the state,Read More
Centre drafts bill to extend 10% EWS quota to private educational institutes
Only days after Parliament rapidly approved a 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) in government jobs and education, the Union government was reported in January 2019 to be preparing a further bill. Its aim would be to make private educational institutes apply the quota as a matter of law. What the proposed law would do According to senior government sources, a draft was close to final and was being discussed within the government, with the intention of bringing it in before the model code of conduct for the generalRead More