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Independent experts, not government servants must be part of the CEC while deciding the challenge to Forest Conservation Act: Former bureaucrats to SC
Urging that independent experts must be part of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) advising the SC on the impacts, adverse of otherwise of the Forest Conservation Amendment Act (FCAA), 2023 –currently under challenge-- sixty former civil servants have in an open letter warned against the possibly “comprised stand and conflict of interest of the present CEC advising the Court
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Various sections of society came together in Delhi to assert Constitutional rights and stand in solidarity with the farmers of India.
Freedom Park: Where the marginalised unite
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Amendments to agricultural laws, dangerous for farmers: National Unions
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Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s resignation, a public warning from Punjab farmers?
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