-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 20th December, 2021 The Right to Food Campaign has issued a statement on the issue of giving eggs in Mid Day meals. On November 23 2021, in the context of malnutrition, the State Government of Karnataka announced that eggs would be provided three Days a week as part of the mid-Day meal scheme to students in seven districts. Against this decision,...
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US Inflation and India’s Economic Recovery -Prabhat Patnaik
-NetworkIdeas.org The very Day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the US inflation rate. The inflation rate in November 2021 over November of the preceding year had been 6.8 per cent in the US, which was higher than the corresponding rate in any month over the previous 40 years; in particular, petrol prices...
More »MSMEs hit by Raw Materials’ Price Rise, Entrepreneurs Down Shutters in Protest -Neelambaran A
-Newsclick.in After facing severe setbacks due to demonetisation, hasty implementation of GST, and the ill-conceived COVID-19 lockdown, the MSMEs are gasping due to a steep rise in raw material prices. In a first, the entrepreneurs of the micro medium and small enterprises (MSME) went on a one-Day strike across the country on MonDay. Affected severely by the policies of the Union government, the ill-planned lockdown in March 2020, and now by the...
More »MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee -Ashwini Kulkarni
-IdeasforIndia.com The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni contends that the actual fund requirement is in fact much higher. As the pandemic continues to adversely impact rural livelihoods, the government should allocate sufficient funds to MNREGA, in order to honour the work-on-demand guarantee. For over a month, national and local...
More »Supreme Court to examine NGO’s plea on MGNREGA dues -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Shortage of funds that was being cited was a gross violation of the law: Swaraj Abhiyan The Supreme Court on TuesDay agreed to examine an NGO’s plea that crores of workers were in a crisis as funds-starved states had run up wage dues of Rs 9,682 crore under the Centre’s flagship 100-Day job scheme MGNREGA that has witnessed an increase in beneficiaries because of the pandemic. A bench of Chief Justice...
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