Top Law News Not just poverty, corporate callousness drives children to labour March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment His hair neatly combed, T-shirt tucked into his trousers, Sunil, all of 12, sits on a bench outside a children’s home here and recounts the horror tales of scores of boys like him employed to stitch bags for a company with a ‘no child labour’ policy. Sunil is one of the 25 child labourers who […] Read more » callousness children corporate drives labour poverty
Top Law News Transparency law to free India from poverty, graft: Aruna Roy March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Social activist Aruna Roy Thursday said India’s second war of independence has to be fought with the right to information (RTI) law, to free the nation from poverty and corruption. ‘The next battle is ready with information and understanding of issues through the RTI and it is the ideal tool to help eradicate poverty and […] Read more » Aruna Roy free graft India poverty transparency law
Top Law News Court seeks exact figure on below poverty line families October 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Apparently not convinced with the official data, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked the government to come up with a ‘reasonable number’ on people living below poverty line (BPL). The court said this after the government claimed that there were 5.9 crore BPL families in the country. A reasonable number on BPL families would help take […] Read more » below Court exact families figure line poverty seeks