Administrative Failure Archives

Balasore self-immolation case: Read why Orissa HC refused bail to FM College HOD and Principal, but granted conditional relief to two students

“Several laws have been enacted, and several steps have been taken by the judiciary as well as the administrative machineries to prevent such kind of occurrences. However, all such steps have gone in vain, and the society has collectively failed to save the life of a young girl.”

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“Lamentable illustration of classic administrative lethargy”: Punjab and Haryana HC rebukes State’s failure to notify Morni Hills as Reserved Forest since 1987

“To permit nearly four decades to elapse without any discernible, substantive action flowing from a statutory declaration is, to put it mildly, an affront to the principles of effective governance and a manifest failure at the end of concerned officers, both statutory and constitutional.”