Month: September 2020
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Right to Internet vis à vis Right to Primary Education in the NCT of Delhi
Information about the issue: In the last few months, COVID-19 has surfaced as an unprecedented challenge for the issue of access to quality education, especially for primary school students in government schools. For most of the students in government primary schools belonging to the disadvantaged communities, absence of computers, smartphones or any reliable broadband service…
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Environmental & Health Concerns regarding Mobile Tower Installations
Information about the Issue: Rapid urbanisation brings in the issue of installation of mobile towers in the vicinity of residential areas, schools and hospitals. Regardless of a huge number of complaints, the telecom companies haven’t deterred so far in installing mobile towers near residential complexes and schools. The Courts have also not taken a hard…
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Civic Architects: The Policy Workshop
In our endeavor to unravel the complexity of Public Policy and expand the scope of public awareness and education in policymaking, we are organizing the online edition of ‘Civic Architects’. For this workshop, we follow an interactive model, wherein varied intensive expert sessions, spread out in one day, help you to understand the intricacies of…
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Support the Slum Dwellers Project
What is the issue? As per a senior government official, there are 750 slum clusters in Delhi, of which around 52 prominent ones are located close to railway tracks. The Supreme Court, on 31st August 2020, passed an Order in connection with the piling up of the waste along the railway tracks, wherein the Court…