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Dear Reader,
State surveillance and its impact on citizens has been one of the debates of our times. Any infringement on citizens’ privacy on the plea of a larger public cause needs to be rigorously regulated and scrutinised if a public good is not to become a public threat. In this context, MediaNama reports exclusively on Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur Municipal Corporation’s issue of a tender for installing a surveillance system in the city for “monitoring protests and behaviour of people”. This is when the laws against data protection are extremely lax in India, with cities like Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai "already among the most surveilled cities in the world".
Partnering with governments has increasingly become rewarding for non-profits in India. But convoluted processes, elongated timelines and lack of integrity of agreements have hampered this collaboration. India Development Review gives you five mantras that can enable a non-profit to tap into this ecosystem relatively seamlessly.
Last week, Bengaluru, the storied IT hub, was in the news with flooded streets, people in boats, tech CEOs rescued in tractors and hapless citizens. Unprecedented precipitation in a city built over water bodies and an abysmal drainage system has amplified these images. ThePrint visits the epicentre of the floods to find out what went wrong and how Karnataka’s capital can be rescued.
And, five years after 125 Gond tribals of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh were charged and incarcerated for a crime that they did not commit - killing 25 paramilitary soldiers of the CRPF - the NIA court ordered the release of 110 of them. But Article 14 chronicles how discharge from gaol has not meant freedom, livelihood, or dignity.
For more stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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