Jaipur

Jaipur’s storehouses of knowledge are dying a slow death. Dusty and infested with termites and pests, city’s public libraries are hanging by a thin thread of hope offered by the resilience of a handful of citizens determined to protect their history and intellectual heritage.Whether government-run or private, Jaipur’s public libraries are plagued by a severe shortage of funds, technology and staff, hindering their ability to maintain these facilities. Old libraries like the Mahara…

Civil society activists fighting against reduction in food entitlements to the below poverty line (BPL) families from 35 kg to 25 kg slammed the indifferent attitude of the major political parties in the state. Reacting on the absence of representatives from ruling Congress party and both the opposition groups the BJP and the CPI (M), advocate Prem Krishan Sharma, president of Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said that the poor of the state had to fight their battle without any…

There is some good news for land owners, whose land was acquired by state government for development works and they went not happy with compensation that they were offered.Now, government is planning to allot 25% developed land to land owners in those matters which were stuck up in court before 2005 as the owners were not happy with compensation of 15% developed land offered to them. Most owners have not surrendered their land to the state government as they felt that the compensa…

The hospitals situated in the rural areas of the state will not suffer from shortage of blood from now onwards. Rajasthan State Aids Control Society (RSACS) on Wednesday received 16 new refrigerated vehicles which will act as a link to transport blood from main blood bank to the blood storage centres at various community health centres (CHC) across Rajasthan. The specially designed vans can transport 200 blood bags at a time in ideal condition required for preserving blood. There are 82…

The Gurjars, agitating over the quota issue, appear to be heading for a clash with the state government as efforts to bring their leader Kirori Singh Bhainsla to the talks table failed on Tuesday.A day earlier, Bhainsla had set a deadline for the government to announce 5% quota for Gurjars in government jobs. On Monday, at a community mass gathering at Mehrawar near Bayana he gave a clear warning about bringing the state machinery to a standstill if the community’s demand remained unful…