With fertility rates falling across states, India does not need a law enforcing a two-child norm as sought by a petitioner recently in the Supreme Court (SC), experts told IndiaSpend. Such a law could instead have unintended impacts sex-selective and unsafe abortions and a further skew in India s sex ratio. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician and lawyer, had asked for a law that would deny access to government jobs, subsidies, and certain rights to those with more than two children. The denied rights, as per the petition, would include the right to vote, to property and to free shelter.
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December 15, 2020
× Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party, coalition partners in the Maharashtra government, are backing protests by workers to stall a plan by Centre-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to privatise the container terminal run by the port authority at the port located near Mumbai.
Sunil Tatkare, the NCP law maker representing the Raigad constituency where the port is located, and Shrirang Barne, the Shiv Sena Member of Parliament, representing Maval constituency, will participate in a demonstration called by the port workers on Wednesday to press the port authority to drop the plan, according to worker unions.
“The JNPT management is expected to approach its Board of Trustees soon to approve a plan to privatise the terminal. We want to stop it,” said a union source.
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MUMBAI: A day after the state cabinet approved draft bills for strengthening laws on prevention of atrocities against women and children, a Shiv Sena Member of Parliament has been accused of sexual harassment at the workplace.
The 38-year-old complainant employed at a gas distribution agency on Friday filed a case of sexual harassment against her employer.
He denied the sexual harassment charges and told TOI the woman made the allegations after she and three staff were caught black-marketing LPG cylinders to the tune of more than Rs 1 crore. He said she was fired and a case was registered with police under Essential Commodities Act and IPC section 408 (criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant) on November 26.