Keyur Tripathi

On July 29, the Indian government approved and unveiled a new education policy. The set of reforms encompasses a whole range of ideas and promises, from vocational education through schools to higher studies. Some of the promised changes reach deep. It is, however, a declared policy for now; the devil, as always, is in implementation. Yet the intent of the ambitious policy in itself is something worth covering, even though I will restrict myself to one aspect: The new policy declares that it will establish a common curriculum in the last classes of school education. The plan’s full description is unavailable at the time of writing, but its summary is accessible in various sources, such as the personal website of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The summary is also comparable to the 2019 draft version of the policy, which was a 484-page document available online. Indian school teaching branches out into three separate streams in the last two classes. These streams are science, commerce, an...

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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Since this declaration, compulsory licensing has remained a hot topic in the IP world. The global and national response needed for shifting the challenge to the promotion and protection of health and the human rights of people across the globe. The situation which is existing today is like a global public health emergency. So the countries identify the ways for addressing this situation from the human rights perspective and to address the public health concern successfully. Enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health which is the heart of the World Health Organization. WHO commitment continues to serve health as a human right which continues to give a signal for the countries to respond to the public health emergency. Access to health can be directly related to the availability of medical care as part of the person’s individuals rights, various international convention Universal Declaration ...

Political Motivations behind the GAP In the beginning, this plan was perceived as highly politically motivated because of Hindu sentiments but very soon they realized that it is a futile effort for their political purpose. Therefore they did not take an interest in this project. At the initial stage, Mr Rajeev Gandhi was very much concerned about this plan but later he did not take interest or successive prime ministers took an interest. It is evidenced by the fact that NRCA (National  River Conservation Authority) held only two meetings since the GAP was launched in 1985 while the meetings were supposed to be held annually. This is sufficient to prove that there was a lack of political motivation and interest behind this project. Such a tendency created a barrier for the Ganga Action Plan when the project was on the implementing stage. Over-Designed STPs In practice, sufficient amount of sewage could never reach to the Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs), due to inadequacy of the sewe...

“ My idea of a better-ordered world is one in which medical discoveries would be free of patent and there will be no profiteering from life or death. ” -  Indira Gandhi From her address to the World Health Assembly in Geneva May 6, 1981 COVID-19 put a challenge to the whole world and it also highlights the issue of public health and the human rights of people across the globe. It affected all spheres and sectors across the globe and the intellectual property regime is not the exception. The research group are engaged in the development of drugs. Some of the drugs approved for the clinical trails by WHO already possess patent protection like Remedesivir and attempt have been also made by some other countries like china to patent similar Covid-19 treatment drugs. It highlights the issue of abuse of the exclusive right of the patent holder. To address this problem various international instrument and treaties signed by the nations for compulsory licensing of patents. It is important t...

Implementation Problems of land acquisition, court cases, contractual issues and inadequate capacities in the local bodies/implementing agencies came in the way of speedy implementation. In some cases, essential components of schemes were not foreseen and estimates had to be revised. This caused cost overruns and delays. Some states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar could not provide funds timely for O&M (Operation & Maintenance) so O&M of conveying sewers and immediate pumping stations has been grossly neglected in Uttar Pradesh therefore in spite of facilities being available, raw sewage still flowing into the river. Operation and Maintenance (O&M) The state did not provide proper financial resources, uninterrupted power supply and skilled human resources. The problem in operation and maintenance can be defective land acquisition proceedings. It is a matter of experience that the Indian engineer design the projects on paper but they should design the scheme on the site and...

Personal details of about 2.90 crore Indian job seekers have been found dumped on the dark net, raising concerns among cyber crime agencies and experts in India over a massive data breach. The data leak was uncovered on Friday by Cyble, Inc, a U.S.-based cyber intelligence firm founded by global cybersecurity expert Beenu Arora. On Saturday morning, Cyble posted an update on its official blog that the names, addresses and contact numbers belonged to job seekers from cities such as Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru. The data is available for free download in a 2.3-gigabyte compressed file, according to the blogpost. Screenshots of the leaked data, which are in The Hindu’s possession, mention two well-known job portals: Naukri and Times Jobs. The blogpost said, “This breach includes sensitive information such as email, phone, home address, qualification, work experience, etc. Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for such personal information to conduct vario...

In recent weeks, the situation in India was a throwback to two historical events. The sight of millions of internal migrants cycling and using any mode of transport to return to their homes far away in this large country brought back images of the mass migration following India’s partition in 1947. The second—with the prime minister and the finance minister announcing a series of policy changes—was a reminder to the launch of the economic reforms in 1991. The Partition of 1947 divided the country into two. Families migrated across the newly-formed boundary. The Covid-19 lockdown of the past weeks again divided the country into two: those who stayed at home, and the others who had lost their jobs and incomes and walked. The desperate reverse migration starkly brought out the economic links of the pandemic which is believed to be environmentally-caused. The crisis also provided an opportunity to reset some of the structural environmental-economic issues that brought the situation t...