In the absence of income or expenditure-based headcount ratio, the growth in the real wages (i.e., nominal wages adjusted against retail inflation) of the manual workers is considered to be a good proxy to assess the trends in poverty. This is because the manual, unskilled/ semi-skilled labourers exist at the bottom of the pyramid or economic hierarchy, and most of them belong to the social categories Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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Dairy farmers demand Tamil Nadu government to hike procurement prices
-The Hindu Dependence on private sector is on the rise, they say Channai: Farmers supplying milk to the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (Aavin) have urged the State government to increase procurement prices. Citing the example of another cooperative, Amul, which has recently hiked selling price of milk by ₹2 per litre, M.G. Rajendran of the Tamil Nadu Milk Producers Welfare Association said farmers in Gujarat, where Amul is based out of,...
More »‘Unified MGNREGS wages needed’: Panel flags pay disparity in Centre's flagship rural employment scheme
-The New Indian Express Having a uniform rate will also be convenient in terms of calculations and indexation in one go for the entire country rather than different States/UTs bringing in their own dynamics, the report said NEW DELHI: A parliamentary standing committee has flagged the disparity in wage rates in various states under the rural employment scheme MGNREGS, calling it baffling and unjustified. While in states like Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand, the...
More »Demand for lower cotton prices is not justified -A Narayanamoorthy
-The Hindu Business Line The textile industry’s vociferous demands will hit cotton farmers, who are facing the brunt of rising costs The recent rise in the price of cotton yarn seems to have hit the textile manufacturers hard, so, a large section of participants involved in value chain products of cotton has called on the government to take measures to arrest the price rise. While demanding higher taxes on cotton exports, they have...
More »Over 3,500 Deaths By Suicide Amongst Unemployed in 2020, Government Tells Rajya Sabha
-TheWire.in This marks the first time in the recent past when the number of deaths by suicide among unemployed people has crossed the 3,000 mark. New Delhi: In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, February 9, Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai, citing data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), said that 3,548 people died by suicide due to unemployment in 2020. The figure, observed in...
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