![]() The law was passed in August 2013, and states were given a year to implement it. Rajasthan was among the first states to implement the National Food Security Act. The second setback came a few weeks ago, when many beneficiaries were re-designated in public distribution system records from Below Poverty Line to being Above Poverty Line, and their red ration cards exchanged for blue ration cards. The drought-like conditions due to inadequate rain last year was the first blow. Their stories echo many times over in Rajsamand in central Rajasthan, one of the state’s most arid and poorest districts. The resultant loss of food entitlements, in a drought year, has pushed the two landless women into the throes of fear and anxiety. Rajki Bai and Bagu Bai, both Bhil adivasi women from village Bhilwadi Tola of the same panchayat, also complained that their ration cards which entitled them to subsidised ration had been changed after a period of 15 years. She says she worked under the national rural employment guarantee scheme for two years, earning Rs 3,000 in wages, but no new public works had been initiated in her village in recent months despite the drought-like conditions.Īround Naujibai milled other Bhil adivasis, many with the same grievance. “I can no longer get any wheat in the ration, only kerosene.”Ī widow in her 60s, Naujibai Bhil survives on a monthly pension of Rs 500 since farm work is hard to come by at her age. “The sarpanch cancelled my red ration card and replaced it with a blue one,” said the adivasi woman from Daang Ke Vaas village, holding her head in her hand. Karnataka elections: Over 69% voter turnout recorded as polling endsĪs the afternoon sun bore down, Naujibai Bhil waited for her turn outside the public grievance office in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district.In Trump trial, his legal team used discredited myth about how women should react to rape.How to stick to a gluten-free diet after starting on it: A celebrity nutritionist offers tips.Karnataka elections: Exit polls predict Congress will be the single-largest party.In his early days in the RSS, Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted minors to be banned from watching films.Fun watch: Actor Shraddha Kapoor’s ‘French’, ‘British’, ‘American’ accents while speaking in English.IPL 2023: At 41, MS Dhoni is striking the ball as well as ever has in his IPL career.To heal Manipur’s wounds, all groups must agree to replace identity politics with politics of peace.From Odisha to Kerala, a bus of climate migrants.Twitter gives Modi a history lesson after he claims that no Congress leader met Bhagat Singh in jail.My Kerala Story: Finding liberation in Malabar.‘I don’t worry about those things’: Sudha Murthy when asked about communal politics in Karnataka.The European data protection supervisor earlier this month called for an EU-wide contact tracing app to be developed in line with GDPR principles. The key in this case is that the app should be designed in such a way that it doesn’t collect identifying data in the first place, or minimizes this data to what is really required to fulfill its function.” Once public authorities hold data, they may well lawfully use it for other purposes, unknown to the data subject. “The bottom line is that individuals cannot be certain how public authorities will use their data in the future. This is what the information commissioner calls ‘function creep’,” he told Infosecurity. “If the central database contains an individual’s location data, including a unique identifier for their device, people will understandably worry that the data could be used for surveillance which they would not consent to. In fact, reports emerged last month that the UK’s NHS was considering capabilities in its own app built on CTF that would allow ministers to deanonymize data in order to identify individuals if necessary.Īaron Moss, barrister at 5 Essex Court, said that it would only be possible to check such allegations once the source code was made public. However, whilst giving the scheme a tentative thumbs-up, Denham argued that developers building apps on top of the CTF may collect other data and use different techniques than those envisaged by the tech giants. The CTF uses Bluetooth technology and exchange of frequently changing anonymous identifier beacons to track and trace infections and notify users if they have been in the vicinity of someone who subsequently tests positive for the virus. The UK’s privacy regulator has given a cautious green light to a contact tracing project Google and Apple are working on to enable governments to end current COVID-19 lockdowns.Ī new opinion issued by the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, stated that the proposed Contact Tracing Framework (CTF) appears to be “aligned with the principles of data protection by design and by default.”
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