-Livemint.com The impact of demonetisation on the organized sector creates a visible effect. The suffering of Bharat is diffused, invisible, but hugely more painful ‘Why doesn’t the informal sector, supposedly badly hit by demonetisation, protest or scream in pain?’. Defenders of demonetisation often pose this question. The question assumes that the suffering poor people face because of government policies always finds political expression. If you want an answer to the question, please...
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Pronab Sen, Country director of the International Growth Centre, interviewed by Ajaz Ashraf
-Scroll.in India’s first chief statistician, Pronab Sen, is now country director of the International Growth Centre, which seeks to build effective growth facilities through engagement between policymakers and researchers. In this interview to Scroll.in, he speaks on the 50 days of demonetisation, its failings, its severe impact on the poor, the loss of credibility of the Reserve Bank of India, the push to make India a cashless or less-cash economy, and...
More »After demonetisation 479 complaints filed against hospitals: Maharashtra govt -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-The Indian Express Maximum complaints from patients in Mumbai, many had travelled to the city for surgery carrying cash. Mumbai: A total of 479 patients from across Maharashtra have filed complaints of refusal of treatment against hospitals in the state after the Centre’s demonetisation move on November 8. Maximum complaints came from patients in Mumbai, several of whom had travelled to the city for surgery carrying cash. Over 73 complaints against private...
More »Gwalior farmers pay kids' school fees in paddy -Deshdeep Saxena
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Starved of cash, 15 farmers of a village in Gwalior deposited 45 quintals of paddy as their children's school fees on Saturday. The school management sold the crop at a mandi and got a Cheque of Rs 58,500. Bhitarwar region of Gwalior is known as the rice bowl of Madhya Pradesh, and paddy is the main crop of the kharif season. Villages here have run out of...
More »Delhi government starts langar for poor who are affected by currency ban
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Call it playing politics or what you will, but in a move that will gladden many, the Delhi government yesterday began providing free food for the poor who are now doubly hit by the shortage of cash due to demonetisation. "This move has been undertaken to provide the poor with three meals a day and save them from dying of hunger due to demonetisation," tweeted Delhi's...
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