Author: LexQuest Foundation
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The Policy Dialogue: Menstrual Health Management Policies in India
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Menstrual Health Management Policies in India. Date: 5th September 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom India’s leading online food delivery service company, Zomato, recently announced a formal period leave policy for all its female employees, which has…
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The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection, and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018: Rescued or Victimized into Rehabilitation?
Human trafficking has plagued society for ages. It is the usage of force and exploitation of individuals for purposes such as slavery, sex work, and other illegal activities translating into an infringement on an individual’s human rights, with women and children being those at the highest risk of being victims of trafficking. Every country that…
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The Policy Dialogue: Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies. Date: 21st August 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 has been hailed for its reformative approach to school and college education in…
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Privacy: The Laid Jurisprudence and Contemporary Challenges
Living life with dignity, encapsulated in the rights such as privacy, which is for all to enjoy, is the victory of democracy. The article highlights some of the salient features of privacy rights and takes a step back to analyse the status of privacy rights in its current form. On 24 August 2017, a nine…
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The Policy Dialogue: Employment and Social Security Policies for the Migrants
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Employment and Social Security Policies for the Migrants. Date: 8th August, 2020. Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom While India is in the process of doing away with the COVID induced lockdown, the adverse impacts of a massive…
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Parliamentary Privileges: Essential for an Empowered Legislature or Abuse of Power?
The term privilege can be defined as an exemption, special right, advantage or immunity to a particular person or group of persons in a layperson’s terms. In law, privilege is an advantage enjoyed by a person or an association where people are exempted from some duty, burden, attendance or liability. Parliamentary Privileges are certain rights…
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The Policy Dialogue: Reforms in India’s Education Policies
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Reforms in India’s Education Policies. Date: 31st July 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom Though the Draft Education Policy, 2019 has focussed on some of the crucial changes necessary in our educational system, the recent pandemic has…
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The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2019: Dodged prerogatives or short-sighted policies?
Introduced in July 2019 in the Lok Sabha as one of the four Codes aimed at labour reforms, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code embodies an amalgam of provisions relating to safety, health, welfare and working conditions of workers by a merger of thirteen major Central laws. Abiding by the constitutional guarantees under…
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The Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Act, 2020: Is Tax Recovery an Alternative for Tax Policy Reforms?
On 5th February 2020 the Finance Minister introduced “The Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Bill, 2020” in the Lok Sabha. The primary objective of this Bill was to provide a solution for income tax disputes which are pending. Thereafter, some official amendments were proposed by the key stakeholders. After the amended Bill was passed by the…
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India’s Tourism Industry in times of COVID-19: Policies for a Prospective Revival
It has been over six months since the first case of coronavirus was detected in India, and almost four months since it was declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation. A virus classified as ‘quite deadly’ stands to affect close to 50 thousand Indians, with above 10 thousand cases of recovered patients…