Anuradha Nagaraj

1 month ago | commonground.stck.me | Anuradha Nagaraj

Hello,The Indian judicial system is notorious for its backlogs. According to the National Judicial Data Grid, more than 72% of cases in the country’s district courts and more than 79% in the high courts are more than a year old. Given this, an experiment in Bihar in delivering grassroots justice has seen remarkable results. The state has since 2006 set up a system of village courts, which deal with matters such as land disputes and family feuds.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Anuradha Nagaraj

In a sparsely furnished room with peeling wall paint, 69-year-old Ram Parvesh Bhagat was holding court. He wore a white kurta and pyjama, and leaned back in his chair, the only one with wheels in the room, as he listened to a poor couple and their daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law, Rashmi Devi, described the harassment she and her in-laws were facing from a relative over a small piece of land, in Ainkhan Bhimnichak village, in Bihar’s Patna district.

Jan 15, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Anuradha Nagaraj |Roli Srivastava

Jamuna Malik’s hands move deftly as she rolls a lump of clay and flattens it into a mould, packing it with mud to set before adding it to the row of bricks waiting to be baked in a kiln on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Fifty metres away, her husband Jairaj Malik creates a pool of water to make the mud malleable. Spade in hand, the 48-year-old works his way through mounds of clay, breaking them down to a dough-like consistency for his wife to shape into bricks.

Sep 21, 2023 | newslaundry.com | Anuradha Nagaraj

At the heart of Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu’s arrest earlier this month is a two-year-old complaint on the functioning of a skill training initiative by the Andhra Pradesh government. While the arrest has triggered protests by supporters and conversations on how this will play out in the state election, it’s also put a spotlight on persistent problems that have plagued the country’s numerous skill training programmes.

Jun 27, 2023 | reuters.com | Anuradha Nagaraj

By Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation*Rules for tenders, incentives favour large firms*Government regulation drives up costs for suppliers*Smaller businesses key for jobs, rural solar energyRAJKOT, India, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I ndia’s solar power market may be growing rapidly - but Girish Mansukbhai Solanki’s business, a small labour agency that supplies workers to companies setting up solar systems in western Gujarat, has been making losses.