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The Morning Wrap: Juvenile Bill To Be Tabled In Parliament Today; Teachers 'Lure' Students From Booze To Books In Nashik Village

The Morning Wrap: Juvenile Bill To Be Tabled In Parliament Today; Teachers 'Lure' Students From Booze To Books In Nashik Village
NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Parents of Nirbhaya alongwith activists during a protest against the release of juvenile convict of the 16 December Gang-rape on December 21, 2015 in New Delhi, India. As pressure mounted on it for early passage of the Juvenile Justice Bill, government today listed the crucial legislation in Rajya Sabha for passage tomorrow and blamed Congress for blocking it in the past due to its obstructionist politics even when it was listed on 15 occasions. (Photo by Sushil Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Parents of Nirbhaya alongwith activists during a protest against the release of juvenile convict of the 16 December Gang-rape on December 21, 2015 in New Delhi, India. As pressure mounted on it for early passage of the Juvenile Justice Bill, government today listed the crucial legislation in Rajya Sabha for passage tomorrow and blamed Congress for blocking it in the past due to its obstructionist politics even when it was listed on 15 occasions. (Photo by Sushil Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition against the release of a convict in the Delhi gang rape case, who was minor when he sexually assaulted a physiotherapy student on a moving bus in the national capital on 16 December, 2012.

Lawmakers in Rajya Sabha will debate the amendments to the Juvenile Bill today that allows 16 to 18-year-olds accused of heinous crime to be treated as adults. Lost in the outrage are voices of dissent that have warned against these amendments, calling them draconian and, in themselves, a crime against children.

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Teachers have lured kids from booze to books in this Nashik village, where education had always taken a backseat. The village of 200 families is known for rampant alcoholism, with even children drinking with their parents in the evenings, but three teachers have helped change that trend.

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Azim Premji writes on how to make India great in The Times of India: "Let me end by saying that all my life, i have learnt that ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things. For this they need to be trusted, encouraged and empowered."

The juvenile justice bill, to be debated by the Rajya Sabha today, confuses revenge with justice, writes G Mohan Gopal in The Indian Express: "Our Parliament is on the verge of committing a heinous crime against its youngest citizens as it discusses the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014 in the Rajya Sabha today. If it passes this bill, it would be placing a sword of Damocles over every Indian born after 1997, including children yet to be born."

Chhattisgarh’s bonhomie with CBI has promoted a culture of impunity, writes Nandini Sundar in Hindustan Times: "Despite the Supreme Court’s directions in 2011 that the state must register FIRs on complaints against security forces, this is perhaps the first time in a decade that the police have registered an FIR on a complaint by a women’s fact-finding group. But this is only the beginning of a long and hopeless battle in which trying to get justice becomes a means to torture the victims."

Short-sighted positions on climate change will bring the country grief, writes Ashok V. Desai in The Telegraph: "[I]n one international forum, India has argued for the right to burn as much fossil fuel as it likes... in another forum, India insists on taking away any incentive it could give to the rest of the world to grow grains for India. The stance in one forum contradicts the one in the other."

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