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		<title>Official losing salary for being tardy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you really believe this ? That Government officials would actually lose salary for being late to office. Most citizens of this country, who run after officials, and have to put up with babus who are not be found in their seats, or have not yet reached office even many hours after the scheduled time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/07/02/official-losing-salary-for-being-tardy/</link>
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		<title>Education officer penalized under RTI Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally celebrate every use of RTI, and write about it as much as I can; in the hope that all these articles can make a difference and encourage more people to use this tool to get the information that they desire rather than wait behind the dark wall of babudom. Waiting to get information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/07/02/education-officer-penalized-under-rti-act/</link>
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		<title>Leaving parents behind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across a situation that was terribly distressing. There was a school friend of mine (we are talking about the late 80&#8217;s) with whom I had lost contact some years back. During the time that I remember spending with him in school, he was a good friend. However, as happens many times when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/07/01/leaving-parents-behind/</link>
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		<title>Dark windows on cars - violation of laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really wonder sometimes about whether we should blame the ordinary citizen or the police when you see laws and rules being broken so easily in the country. I was witness to something that left me wondering about this question. We see traffic rules normally broken very casually on the roads (speed limit, usage of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/30/dark-windows-on-cars-violation-of-laws/</link>
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		<title>Use RTI and get transferred as punishment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The RTI Act was supposed to provide an inexpensive way for people to get more empowered, and to be able to exercise their right to get more openness into the Government machinery. This would be a sword in the fight to expose corruption and mis-governance; and the RTI Act has brought about some changes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/29/use-rti-and-get-transferred-as-punishment/</link>
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		<title>Introducing medical mercy killing in India ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very sensitive subject indeed. Mercy killing, or allowing a person to take his own life (or a team of doctors to do so) is a dilemma that raises ethical questions all over the world. For a world that has derived many of its laws and regulations from religious backgrounds (Ten Commandments / The Gita [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/29/introducing-medical-mercy-killing-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Hospitals to provide patient records within 72 hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been numerous cases in the past where patients have complained that hospitals have been lax in handing over their medical records to them. Hospitals have used this delay as a deterring factor if the patient wants to move to another hospital. In cases where there is a dispute between the patient and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/29/hospitals-to-provide-patient-records-within-72-hours/</link>
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		<title>Bihar officials fined under RTI Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slowly, one can see a greater use of the RTI Act. The RTI Act had been pushed for long as the means to allow citizens to get openness from the bureaucracy (seen for long as a place where things were slow, and where citizens would always have to suffer). The RTI Act was meant to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/29/bihar-officials-fined-under-rti-act/</link>
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		<title>Selling off a live army shell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corruption takes many strange forms, and can cause very strange situations. However, this incident takes the cake. The army has policies for disposal of its ammunition, and those do not allow letting its soldiers walk off with these shells and sell them for their personal benefit. So how do you account for the stupidity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/26/selling-off-a-live-army-shell/</link>
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		<title>Government looking to check misuse of dowry laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The incidence of dowry in the country is a fairly high chance. Over a period of time, it has evolved from something that was supposed to be a gift given to the bride (and maybe the only thing given to the daughter of the house from the family property) to something that is seen as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indiapoliticalblog.com/2008/06/23/government-looking-to-check-misuse-of-dowry-laws/</link>
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