--Press release by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) dated September 21, 2022 Over One lakh People Already Evicted in 2022. Nearly 1 Million People Faced Evictions in India in the Last Five Years. In 2021, over 36,480 houses were demolished and 2,07,106 people were forcibly evicted across India by governments – at all levels, reveals a new report by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN). The report also finds that in...
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Women and Agriculture in Kerala State: Collective responses by Kudumbashree during the COVID-19 pandemic -Resmi P Bhaskaran and Rajesh Ravi
- Focus on the Global South, dated 19 September, 2022 Three years into the pandemic, the report titled 'Women and Agriculture in Kerala State' assesses the track record of the Indian state of Kerala in addressing the health and livelihood challenges during the peak crisis period. The authors of the report elaborate on how the Government of Kerala effectively used the wide Network of its women’s empowerment project – The Kudumbashree...
More »Hunger pangs -Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph At present, India has 195 million households with ration cards (nearly 794 million people), lower than the beneficiaries we intended to target in 2013 Inordinate delays in carrying out the census exercise are depriving millions of Indians who rely on rations for their subsistence. The exclusion of the poorest from the public distribution system in the pre and post-pandemic years was first flagged by the economists, Jean Drèze and Reetika...
More »Apply for Rural Media Fellowship 2022: An opportunity for young scribes, last date to apply -- 2nd Oct. 2022
-Press release by Village Square Youth Hub dated 5th September 2022 The Rural Media Fellowship 2022 is for young journalists to tell the powerful stories of rural India. The 9 months fellowship will include a monthly stipend of Rs 35,000 along with training from leading sector-experts. An opportunity for young passionate journalists to leverage storytelling as a tool for social change Mentorship from Industry Experts, Stipend Included Village Square Youth Hub is launching a...
More »MoNetary Policy Alone Inadequate To Tame Inflation -Dr. Amar Patnaik
-NDTV.com At a time when Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation has remained above RBI's upper tolerance level of 6% for seven consecutive months and the WPI inflation rates are at the highest levels since January 2007, it is good that the issue was finally discussed in parliament and the RBI's recent rate hike signals recognition of the concern. However, during the debate in the parliament, the Treasury bench largely took a...
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