Policy, People & Politics

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Mass migration, archaic database: The demographic reality behind 13 crore voters ‘deleted’ in SIR

A detailed analysis of the ECI's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), explaining how unrecorded internal migrations and outdated data silos led to a massive administrative cleanup of India's electoral rolls.

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India’s missing-child system connects police, digital platforms, railway rescue operations and child-protection agencies across the country.

How India finds the missing children

NCRB data, CCTNS, TrackChild, Khoya-Paya, GHAR, helplines and Railway operations form a layered search system where finding a child is only the first step before verification, protection and safe restoration.

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Anatomy of the collapse in Satya Niketan 

A separate district magistrate and police committee has been tasked with proactively reaching out to students living in PGs, hearing grievances, and building a database, an implicit admission that no such database currently exists.

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