In a more realistic and less confusing picture of the situation, the new wholesale price data monitoring system introduced on Thursday revealed that inflation of food articles soared by 13.39 per cent year-on-year during the week ended October 24, mainly owing to a surge in potato and onion prices, even as inflation for primary articles declined by 0.11 per cent on a weekly basis. As per the new data collation system,...
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Expand and re-orient NREGA by PS Appu
The recession is a promising moment to expand NREGA with greater emphasis on building social capital in a big way. Soon after assuming office, the first UPA government took an impressive step for the alleviation of rural poverty by launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. It was, indeed, a wise move to insulate the programme from the vicissitudes of electoral politics by enacting the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
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NEW DELHI: Floods that have ravaged parts of southern and western India is likely to hit the grain production in the country, leading to higher prices of essential commodities such as rice, pulses, jowar, bajra and certain category of vegetables. While the extent of the damage caused by the sudden burst of floods in Karnataka, Andhra, Maharashtra and Goa is yet to be assessed, the governments at the Centre and...
More »Rising prices: What is the govt doing? by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
The spectre of inflation has returned to haunt India. It is not even six months since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government returned to power but its inability to control food prices is arguably its single biggest failure till now. The inflation rate will eventually come down sometime in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future and the government will surely take credit for bringing prices down as and when that happens. But...
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खास बात • राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर हुई कुल आत्महत्याओं में किसान-आत्महत्याओं का प्रतिशत साल 1996 में 15.6% , साल 2002 में 16.3% साल 2006 में 14.4% , साल 2009 में 13.7% तथा साल 2010 में 11.9% तथा साल 2011 में 10.3% रहा है। # • राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर हुई कुल आत्महत्याओं में किसान-आत्महत्याओं का प्रतिशत साल 2014 में 9.4%,साल 2015 में 9.43%, साल 2016 में 8.7%, साल 2017 में 8.2%, साल 2018 में 7.69% रहा है। • 2018...
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