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The outcome of the Delhi Assembly elections has taken even the most discerning of psephologists and the most ardent of supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party by surprise. The speed and amplitude of the turn-around in the Party's political fortunes hardly have any parallel in the electoral history of India. Who would have thought it possible a couple of months ago that the all conquering BJP juggernaut will come to a grinding halt in the National Capital and will refuse to budge despite all the fr...

The outcome of the Delhi Assembly elections has taken even the most discerning of psephologists and the most ardent of supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party by surprise. The speed and amplitude of the turn-around in the Party's political fortunes hardly have any parallel in the electoral history of India. Who would have thought it possible a couple of months ago that the all conquering BJP juggernaut will come to a grinding halt in the National Capital and will refuse to budge despite all the fr...

Short shrift to petition seeking speedy justice Janhit Manch, Common Cause, and two others  had jointly filed a comprehensive writ petition in the Supreme Court in March 2008, offering a multi-pronged strategy to expedite the dispensation of justice and reverse the trend of a mounting backlog of Court cases.  The writ petition had relied heavily on the Law Commission of India reports. The need to use alternate modes of disputes redressal, pre-litigation measures and plea bargaining ...

ARBITRARY ALLOTMENT OF PRIME PLOTS IN ODISHA Common Cause had joined hands with Centre for Public Interest Litigation and Mrs. Jayanti Das, a public interest activist from Odisha, to challenge the discretionary allotment of prime residential plots to influential persons in the states of Odisha and Gujarat and filed WP (C) 1096/2013 in the Supreme Court. The petition was taken up on January 24, 2014. Justice A K Patnaik chose to recuse himself from the bench and asked for the matter to be lis...

EXPORT OF ENDANGERED RED SANDERS WOOD Common Cause has sought the intervention of the Supreme Court to foil a determined bid by the Government of Andhra Pradesh to export a huge quantity of confiscated Red Sanders wood in the form of round logs fancied by international traders. This move flies in the face of international conventions, express provisions of the Import-Export Policy and repeated admonitions of the Ministry of Environment & Forests. It also ignores a commitment made by the D...

GUIDELINES ON CONTENT REGULATION OF GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING We have been keeping our readers informed of the developments in our PIL on wasteful large scale government advertisements of a political nature pending in the Supreme Court since 2003. The three-member committee appointed by the Supreme Court submitted its proposition of guidelines for regulating publicly funded government advertisement campaigns in October 2014. On January 8, 2015, the Court directed that the contest...

ENSURING THAT ALL CHILDREN ARE IN SCHOOL *Kathyayini Chamaraj Though the Right to Education has been made a fundamental right under Article 21A by the 86th Constitutional Amendment and operationalised by the Right to Education Act in 2010, free and compulsory elementary education (F&CEE) remains a dream for a large number of marginalised children. Providing F&CEE to all children is not only a Constitutional mandate, but also an important component of the Millennium Development Go...

Common Cause updates We present here a recapitulation of the activities of Common Cause and the significant developments in its various initiatives since the publication of the last issue of the journal. Supreme Court 1. WP(C) 330/2001: Slaughter house pollution: At the hearing on February 6, 2015, the Court directed the Secretary, Consumer Affairs, to clarify whether the relevant standards of the Bureau of Indian Standards require any modification due to the passage of time. The Court...

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GENERAL INFORMATION Under the Rules & Regulations of COMMON CAUSE as amended by the Governing Council on March 8, 2007, The membership of the Society is open to individuals irrespective of caste, creed or community. Organisations, which were members of the Society as on March 8, 2007, shall henceforth be Honorary members without voting rights. The membership fee for new Individual members (with voting rights) is Rs.500/- for one year and Rs.2...