‘Tathya apas’ are no crisis, but governance is
ON THE footpath outside the National Press Club, nearly 2,000 women have sat in for more than a month. They are information officers, or tathya apa, employed under a government project aimed at ‘empowering women through ICT’ across rural areas. As the second phase of the project comes to an end, so do their jobs, too. They demand regularisation of their job...