Changing Weather in the Supreme Court: Yet Another Welcome Judgement

[Sukla Sen]

At least for a while, we've, for sure, left Gogoi and Bobde behind - even if in a limited way, till now.

Even that comes as a whiff of fresh breeze in a dark and suffocating solitary prison cell.

Hope things, in due course, would get better.

<<The judgment (delivered on 29 06 21) – whose orders are detailed below – has two significant sets of directions. The first set is to assert that State and Central governments have not done enough to assist working households, especially in terms of registration and the implementation of adequate safety nets for food provision, cash transfers and support for income and lost livelihoods. The second is to direct immediate implementation of both registration programmes as well as expansion of food distribution within and beyond the PDS system, including an emphasis on community kitchen and migrant worker specific schemes. Importantly, the Court held that these measures must begin immediately and continue till the “end of the pandemic.” The Court also asked the governments to reconsider limits on enrolment under the National Food Security Act and to consider the adequacy of existing cash transfer schemes and programmes.>>

(Ref.: <https://workingpeoplescharter.in/media-statements/mandate-aid-workers-supreme-court/>.)