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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | For the rural poor, a manufactured crisis -Rajendran Narayanan

For the rural poor, a manufactured crisis -Rajendran Narayanan

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published Published on Jan 31, 2020   modified Modified on Jan 31, 2020
-The Hindu

Instead of focusing on increasing rural wages, the BJP-led government is wasting resources on the NPR and NRC

The National Population Register (NPR) and a possible National Register of Citizens (NRC), which will unleash a humanitarian crisis, are being pushed at a time when rural distress is acute. With the Budget due soon, let’s look at how the BJP-led government has served the interests of the rural poor.

A grim picture

The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) is meant to be conducted once every five years by the National Statistical Office (NSO). The CES contains details about the spending patterns of households. Data collected from this becomes a vital source of information to improve economic planning and budgetary allocation. However, the Central government suppressed the release of the most recent survey data from 2017-2018. According to the report, leaked to and published by Business Standard, consumer spending fell for the first time in 40 years. A remarkable analysis of the report by Professor S. Subramanian in ‘The India Forum’ compares the Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) from the CES 2011-2012 and 2017-2018. It presents a grim picture of rural India.

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The Hindu, 31 January, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/for-the-rural-poor-a-manufactured-crisis/article30695598.ece?homepage=true


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