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The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) is delighted to announce the inaugural ‘TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship’. It is an opportunity to produce top-grade investigative work in English that will be published by The Collective and made available for co-publication by regional newsrooms.

Parliament defied

Welcome to Parliament Defied, an investigative series that examines the assurances given by politicians to Parliament, and their outcomes. The Reporters’ Collective analysed over 100 parliamentary reports, spanning thousands of pages, documenting pledges by 55 ministries over the last five years in Parliament. Assurances in Parliament are meant to reliable, but were they? Discover stories that reveal the stark reality of government assurances, and the failure of mechanisms to ensure government accountability.

Fellowship.

Part 1
Prologue
Assure probe, backpedal later: Government’s Parliament tactic when questions rise on Adani
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Part 2
Home Ministry
Home Minister promised to help states in addressing police suicides, but quietly flipped
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Part 3
Agriculture
Centre assured Parliament a report on farmer killings in MP, but stalled it indefinitely
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Part 4
ministry of personnel & training
Union gov’t shredded Right to Privacy Bill at the behest of intelligence agencies
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PArt 5
FInance MInistry
When Modi gov't, RBI told half-truths and lies to downplay damage to small businesses
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PART 6
Defence Ministry
Defence lab builds temple chariot; Modi gov't buries scandal
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Part 7
Environment MInistry
The battle between a Kashmiri parliamentarian and the Environment ministry to stop polluting industries
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PART 8
NITI AAYOG
Modi Gov’t Quietly Backtracks on Decade-Old Promise of Measuring Poverty in India
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THE FOLKS
BEHIND THE SEries

Project Lead
Shreegireesh Jalihal

Reporter

Shreegireesh reports and writes on issues of economy and governance. He particularly loves to use the Right to Information Act to find stories. A former TEDx licensee (2016-18), he graduated from Delhi's Indian Institute of Mass Communication with a diploma in English Journalism. Before joining the collective, he worked with Business Standard.

Authors & Researchers
Saras Jaiswal

Intern

Swapnil Ghose

Intern

Tapasya

Reporter

Editors
Furquan Ameen

Editor

Anoop George Philip

Editor

Nitin Sethi

Founder

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