-The Tribune Little impact of demonetisation Six years after demonetisation, the black currency market continues to thrive. There has been a whopping 107 times increase in the number of fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination between 2016 and 2020. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary today said 2,272 fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination were seized in 2016, 74,898 in 2017, 54,776...
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Plight of the small peasantry in Punjab is affecting their mental health, highlights field-based study
Door-to-door and village-to-village surveys carried out by researchers of the Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana detected a total of 9,291 suicides that were committed by farmers in six districts of Punjab during the period from 2000 to 2018. Situated in the Malwa region of Punjab, which is known for cotton farming and the prevalence of cancer among its population, Sangrur (2,506) witnessed the highest number of...
More »Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts -Sushmita
-India.Mongabay.com * The allocation of lands for new commercial coal mines is likely to renew issues related to the creation of land banks in Jharkhand. * Common lands that people use have been transferred to land banks over the years, and physical surveys to record actual rights aren’t complete yet. * Lack of effective implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 on forest land (also part of land banks) has been a major...
More »Review: RBI paper highlights the risk in the Finances of 10 States -Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
-Factly.in The RBI recently published an article State finances and the Risk Analysis. The article aims to look at the fiscal vulnerability of Indian States & emphasises on ten heavily debt-burdened states in India based on the debt-GSDP ratio in 2020-21. These ten states also account for around half of the total expenditure by all state governments in India. Here is a review. Effective and efficient public finance management is said to...
More »‘Flood Jihad’: How Media Outlets Communalised Silchar Floods -Archit Mehta
-TheWire.in More than a month after this incident, Assam’s chief minister called the flooding in Silchar a “man-made” disaster. Several media outlets then added an anti-Muslim spin. While reporting on the Assam floods in June, the Indian Express stated that Silchar – southern Assam’s biggest town and the gateway to the three districts on the bank of the Barak river – had submerged in water unlike “ever before in its history.” By...
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