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INDIA LAW ABSTRACTS"Uniform Civil Code and Adoption Laws in India"
SHARDA SHARMA, Chanakya National Law University
A bill on uniform civil code was introduced in the Indian parliament. But there was hue and cry from Muslim Community and this bill never became an act. The grounds on which objection were raised was that Islam does not recognize adoption, so it would be violative of article 25 of the constitution which provides right to practice and profess religion. However art. 25 protect only such practices which are essential and integral part of any religion. My research question were:
"Working of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act:
Some Preliminary Findings from Drought-Prone Anantapur District"
V. REDDAPPA REDDY, Sri Krishnadevaraya University Considering unemployment as the basic reason for poverty in India, the Government of India launched a 100 days guaranteed employment programme during 2005. A massive programme that is being implemented throughout India, it needs to be monitored and assessed regularly so as to understand the teething troubles in implementing the programme and make necessary modifications, if any, for better implementation. The present paper makes an attempt to understand the working of the programme by using the secondary data made available by implementing agencies, by conducting Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs), Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), physical visits to the works carried out under the programme, and by participation in social audit at the field level. "Demergers - An Indian Legal Perspective"
DIPEN CHATTERJEE, affiliation not provided to SSRN Research on De-mergers. "Tackling Daughter Deficits in Tamil Nadu, India"
ARJUN S. BEDI, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) A well-known demographic feature in several East and South Asian countries is the continuing decline in the proportion of girls to boys. In India, till recently, the skewed sex ratio was treated as a Northern and Western Indian phenomenon. However, analysis of the 2001 Census shows that some of the districts with the most unbalanced sex ratios lie in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu. Notwithstanding its recent addition to the list of states exhibiting daughter deficit, the state has pioneered initiatives to prevent daughter elimination and to measure daughter deficit. The availability of district-level panel data on infant mortality and sex ratio at birth covering the years 1996-1999 and 2003, periods which may be characterized by sharp differences in programs and initiatives to reduce daughter elimination combined with spatial variation in these programs, provides an unusual opportunity to identify the causal effect of interventions on both, pre- and post-birth daughter deficit. We find evidence of daughter deficit in at least half the state's districts with a majority of the deficit (60 to 70 percent) occurring before birth, potentially due to sex selective abortion as compared to after birth due to female infanticide and neglect. The temporal analysis over the period 1996-1999 and 2003, shows a 46 percent decline in post-birth deficit, without a corresponding increase in pre-birth deficit. Our difference-in-differences estimates suggest that at least 79 percent of the decline in post-birth deficit may be attributed to the set of policy interventions pursued by the state and civil society actors. "Dowry in India - A Socio Legal Study"
SHARDA SHARMA, Chanakya National Law University
Dowry is the amount payable during marriage as a consideration for marriage. As per S. 498 A of IPC dowry demand amounts to domestic violence. It is also a ground for divorce as it amount to cruelty. Dowry prohibition act has come into force on 1961 however it has failed to curtail dowry demand. The practice of dowry-giving lies at the root of most woman's human rights violations on the subcontinent. Indeed, female infanticide, feticide, and domestic violence are all linked to the practice of giving dowry. "Brain Stem Death: Making Out a Case for the Legalization of Removal of Life Support Systems"
TARUN JAIN, Supreme Court of India, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), National Law University, Jodhpur
Of the various organs inhabiting the human body, brain is arguably the most sensitive and important one; so much so that the medical profession has classed out a special type of death - brain-stem death. Supporters seeking legalization of euthanasia often seem to make out the case of the patients in comatose state having had suffered irreparable damage to their brain-stem. | |||||||||
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