Shashank Patil

Law, Economics.

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

Two eggs a day can help meet up to three-fourths of the daily protein requirement of a five-year-old child. Yet, 16 states do not serve eggs in mid-day meals, and courts refuse to "re-write the menu". Thread:
https://t.co/yChBEumQa2

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[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

The Transparency of Rules Act proposed by @sanjeevsanyal is a step towards accessible, disabled-friendly, futuristic and AI-enabled legal informatics infrastructure.

The legal fraternity must endorse this.

Design principles and a a draft bill here:

https://t.co/ZVtF2sXLLt

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

Eggs are administratively reasonable; they are the rights-protective default, and the children bear the cost for the omission. Two eggs a day, thrice a week, for *all* children in both schools and anganwadis will cost about 24,500 crores across all states. (lesser if we -veg)

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

Two eggs a day can help meet up to three-fourths of the daily protein requirement of a five-year-old child. Yet, 16 states do not serve eggs in mid-day meals, and courts refuse to "re-write the menu". Thread:
https://t.co/yChBEumQa2

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

India has a strange blind spot when it comes to eggs. For starters, we have, against all common sense, declared it non-veg, which automatically comes attached with moral baggage, and then on top of that, even in families that eat meat, the idiotic idea that eggs are “heating” (taseer) reduces its daily/weekly consumption.

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

Such a reverse-burden approach to socio-economic rights is critical where policy failure produces irreversible harm and where the beneficiaries--children, women and the unborn-- lack political voice. States that have higher malnutrition are also the states that don't give eggs.

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

During delimitation, the polity becomes a wish-granting cow that everyone wants to tie in their backyard. History warns that in matters of Delimitation, we must trust no one but God; and revise appointments and demarcate the rules to the last detail until they guarantee fairness.

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

The Delimitation Bills Raise Important Legal Questions
https://t.co/ILeykJZPY0
Specific sections of the bill are in the article.
Thread summarising arguments 1/14

[Shashank Patil @02_shashank]

The NDA does not have the required numbers to pass the proposed amendment unless it is supported by some non-alliance parties, especially from the North, on this issue. Keep your eyes out for who supports this. 13/14