The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has said it has no information on public requests – and RTI documents show that the ministry hastily issued a circular on the renaming after Modi's tweet.

Corruption, poor quality construction materials and the specious implementation of schemes combined with the Centre’s flawed MSP policies have rendered the attempt to transform the region useless.

PM Modi had said that he'd been getting many requests to rename the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award after Major Dhyan Chand. But now the PMO has refused to disclose how many requests it'd received.

Under the Modi government's Ken-Betwa link project, ten villages in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh are to be displaced. Villagers fear that they will not get due compensation like many other projects.

Several new structures, including barrages and pick-up weirs, which were initially not part of the draft Memorandum of Agreement were added at the last minute through a manipulative choice of words, like 'repair' for 'reconstruction'.

Documents accessed by The Wire reveal that the Ministry of Jal Shakti secretary had disagreed with certain provisions regarding the allocation of water to the two states, claiming that the project would 'go in another spin'.

The feasibility of an irrigation project can be assessed is through the latest hydrological data. The Ken-Betwa Link project is based on 2003-04, but the government did not bother to obtain fresh data in violation of norms.

Out of the 4,206 hectares of non-forest land to be made available for compensatory afforestation under the Ken-Betwa Link project, a distinct chunk belongs to villages situated in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve.

RTI documents reveal that no emphasis was laid on discussing the CEC report on adverse ecological impacts throughout the project’s planning stage. More so, the final Supreme Court decision on the report is still awaited.

Two seminars and a meeting, all devoted to regulation of OTT platforms, is what the I&B ministry admits to by way of consultation with stakeholders. No meeting with news organisations is mentioned.

In 2018, the CAG reported that between 2013-14 and 2015-16, the Food Corporation of India did not store enough wheat in the Adani Group's silo in Kaithal, Haryana but kept paying rent.

For riot victims, the wounds of a year ago are still fresh.

Documents accessed by The Wire show that the government has paid compensation that is less than 10% of the amount claimed by victims whose shops were vandalised or damaged in areas near Maujpur.

While a steady flow is required to maintain the health of rivers, the ministry opposed the rules, saying they would cause a loss of revenue.

In 2018, the Centre had fixed environmental flow of the Himalayan Ganga at 20-30%. However, the Rawat government asked this limit to be further reduced to avoid monetary losses.

A number of projects have not been complying with mandatory 'environmental flows', affecting the health of the Ganga. The authorities concerned have failed to enforce compliance.

Environmentalists fear that if the government does not properly ensure minimum environmental flow in the Ganga, the river may dry up and we may witness a spate of disasters in future.

After the appeal made by Rakesh Tikait, the leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, farmers have begun to flock to Ghazipur in large numbers.