“If the birth and death certificate data are preserved in a special way, development works can be planned properly. A Bill to link the death and birth register with electoral rolls will be introduced in Parliament. Under this process, when a person turns 18, his or her name will automatically be included in the electoral rolls. Similarly, when a person dies, that information automatically will go to the EC, which will start the process of deleting the name from the voters’ list. Earlier, the development process took place in fragments, because adequate data for development was not available,” he said, according to the Indian Express.
Shah also released a publication at the inauguration of the newly built Janganana Bhawan and said, “Today, history of all Census since 1981 has been compiled and published in the form of a book. The accountability can only be expected when responsibilities are fixed, and with the launch of upgraded SRS mobile application with geofencing today, employees at even the lowest level will become more responsible.”
23/05/2023
How can nonprofits ensure people’s participation in lawmaking? https://idronline.org/article/advocacy-government/how-can-nonprofits-ensure-peoples-participation-in-lawmaking/ by ANTARAA VASUDEV
In February 2014, heeding to the demand for greater transparency and legitimacy in lawmaking, the Ministry of Law and Justice drafted India’s Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy (PLCP). since 2014 Civis (a nonprofit that works on co-creating laws) has observed an 805 percent increase in the number of consultations opened for public feedback—here’s Civis’s data on the accessibility of environmental laws.
Doctors, Psychiatrists Need to Read What Daily Hatred, Fear, Anxiety Means for Muslims in India https://thewire.in/rights/doctors-psychiatrists-need-to-read-what-daily-hatred-fear-anxiety-means-for-muslims-in-india by Prof Mohan Rao
The vast majority of the people from the Muslim community are being brought down to nothingness that mental health professionals in India do not recognise.
It is not just Muslims whose lives are traumatised, shortened, brutalised and filled with fear and anxiety, the same occurs among Hindus as well. They do not face brutality, nor are they threatened for their lives, but their lives, too, are restricted in imagination, in comfort and togetherness. Their souls are shrivelled, for they too act out of fear, a potent political weapon.
They miss out on the richness of Muslim culture and history, and get trapped in their own xenophobic ghettos. I am convinced that this strengthens patriarchy and the control of women’s lives among Hindus.
Study Says A New Lens Is Needed to Look at Mental Health of Indian Muslims https://thewire.in/health/new-lens-mental-health-india-muslims-communalism-trauma The report covers the social, emotional and financial burden that the Muslim community has had to face in the country due to the dramatic rise in communal polarisation and hate crimes over the past few years. When violence, discrimination and humiliation are ongoing, their impact cannot be fully understood just through established clinical terms like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The trauma responses are also ongoing and cyclic and need a newer lens and approach to redefine the meanings of mental health, selfhood, resilience, and survival, says social activist and researcher Hasina Khan..
The loss of community, the study says, severely affects one’s sense of confidence and surety about navigating a difficult situation in legal cases or simply rebuilding one’s life after a violent incident. “An all-pervading sense of being made to feel powerless in front of a fascist state and hateful ideology, which has forced several Muslim victims of communal violence to change how they live their lives, is the most important point that has emerged from our work,”
“PTSD better describes the experiences of an American soldier who goes to Iraq to bomb and goes back to the safety of the United States. He’s having nightmares and fears related to the battlefield and his fears are imaginary. Whereas for a Palestinian in Gaza whose home was bombarded, the threat of having another bombardment is a very real one. It’s not imaginary. There is no ‘post’ because the trauma is repetitive and ongoing and continuous.” - https://qz.com/1521806/palestines-head-of-mental-health-services-says-ptsd-is-a-western-concept