Try GOLD - Free
Non-starter: Centre's new legal shield for health workers after Kolkata rape
The New Indian Express Madurai
|May 05, 2025
THE Centre had proposed a model state law to protect healthcare workers following the nationwide protests after the rape and murder of a trainee postgraduate student in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.
However, despite the government's proposal, the Union Home Ministry and the Union Health Ministry are yet to hold a meeting to discuss the modalities of the law.
This comes as the Centre has retracted from its earlier proposal of a separate central law to deal with offences against healthcare professionals in 2019. Kerala-based RTI activist Dr K V Babu, who has been pursuing the issue, said the Home Ministry has acknowledged in the RTI that the model state law was proposed last year.
However, since the proposal was made in September, he said that both the ministries seem clueless about its status.
This story is from the May 05, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Madurai.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM The New Indian Express Madurai
The New Indian Express Madurai
Gujarat's ₹10K crore agri relief package ignites political storm
Relief formula 'flawed': BKS state general secretary RK Patel slammed the relief model, questioned how the same relief could apply to both 25% and 100% crop losses
1 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
Malevolent Marauder
The cancer surge among millennials and Gen Z is a major health crisis nobody wants to talk about
4 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
India for faster emission cuts by developed nations
INDIA has reiterated its firm stand on climate justice and equitable global action at the COP30 Leaders' Summit in Belem, Brazil.
1 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
Finding Your Way in the Labyrinth
Many think meditation is tough, but this walking technique can quietly reconnect you to your inner self
2 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
Portrait of an Ordinary Man
This deceptively simple novel explores how much of love, or life, is ever skin-deep
3 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
PM to launch hydro project during 2-day Bhutan visit...
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Bhutan on a state visit on November 11-12, during which he will inaugurate the 1,020 MW Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project along with Bhutan king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
1 min
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
How Distance Reveals What Proximity Conceals
Last week, I interviewed Tuva Atasever, a Turkish astronaut, as part of my PhD research at Oxford. While Atasever detailed the rigorous selection and training, his tone shifted when he recalled crossing the Kármán line. He spoke with fond nostalgia about floating in microgravity, describing it as a meditative and spiritually exhilarating experience.
2 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
The Good Mafia and Their Climate Cartel
With Sustainability Mafia, young innovators band together to build a cleaner, kinder future
2 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
A Story of Her Own
The first woman in Bhutan to be published in English, Kunzang Choden, in her memoir Telling Me My Stories, gives an account of belonging, loss, and displacement, against the backdrop of the rapid modernisation in the country in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
2 mins
November 09, 2025
The New Indian Express Madurai
The Deadly Queue of Death and Indifference
One hundred and fourteen Indians have died this year.
3 mins
November 09, 2025
Listen
Translate
Change font size