“Everything for me began at Matruchhaya, the orphanage in Goa. I was brought there when I was two, and no one knew who my parents were. I spent my growing up years there wanting answers but didn't know where to look for them,” she says.
Ira is the first person with a disability to have topped the UPSC CSE exam. This gritty officer suffers from a medical condition called scoliosis, which is essentially the curvature of the spine.
Prior to this, a number of students had approached the Delhi High Court, aggrieved by the changes in the admission criteria. However, the Delhi HC held the MCI norms to be “legal and valid”.
It was Sunil Gupta, retired legal advisor of the prison, who moved court regarding the discriminatory categorisation by the government by filing a petition.
The plea expresses that the DDA's decision to arbitrarily convert the park into a community centre is "a clear-cut example of poor planning and an example of wastage of public money.”
Raised by journalist and author Sucheta Dalal, the online petition makes a case against the hidden charges levied by banks and demands fair treatment for customers.
Over the past 15 years, the budget for children has remained at 4 % of the entire budget. Clearly, this does not suffice. In this petition to the decision makers of the country, the Indian child talks about the need for greater investments for 39 % of the country’s population, its children.