Policy Update: June 30- July 6

Police will require magistrate’s nod to detain the accused for all offences with a prison term less than 7 years. Step taken due to increasing incidence of false cases.

 

Become part of universal immunization programme. Aimed at prevention of around 1 lakh deaths and 10 lakh hospitalisations. In addition, an adult vaccine against Japanese encephalitis will be introduced in districts with high levels of the disease.

 

Benefits of the trip, why the objectives cannot be achieved by the Indian missions, a junior person or through video conferencing are some of the columns in a detailed proforma which officials of any ministry or government department intending to travel abroad have to fill up. 

 

Brings into force the forgotten "bail not jail" regime by ruling that an accused should be entitled to bail after police completed probe and filed chargesheet. Reverses the general trend witnessed in heinous offences like murder and rape, where the courts have been extremely reluctant to grant bail during the trial proceedings. 

 

Part of government's efforts to bring transparency in the process of giving nods to projects.

 

Earlier Supreme Court had banned shrimp farming but CAA formed to regulate it. Shrimp farms have led to groundwater salination and depletion, contamination of community commons, drinking water scarcity, and depletion of grazing lands in six coastal districts of Maharashtra.

 

The company allegedly rigged the auction and violating rules for its nationwide Jio broadband spectrum.

 

An annual fee of Rs 82 lakh will be paid to get crucial flood data. The two sides also agreed to allow their water experts to conduct study tours on both sides of the river which originates in Tibet.

 

S P Tyagi, his family members, three European nationals and four companies named in criminal complaint to track over Rs 360 crore bribe money dealt between the middlemen and others accused by CBI in March 2013.

 

The company has provided rehabilitation benefits only to about 15 per cent of the dam oustees. 

 

Jiah’s mother Rabia Khan obtained forensic opinion different from police version claiming that it was not a suicide.

 

Governments in Telangana and Seemandhara have been planning to waive off farm loans.

 

Introduced on humanitarian grounds, the policy allows Afghans to stay for up to two years and exemption from police reporting for senior citizens and children.