-The New Indian Express The recent socio-economic and caste census (SECC) 2011 data on deprivations is profoundly disquieting. At the global level too, the latest data on economic inequality is equally disconcerting. That 75 per cent of rural households in India earn less than Rs 5,000 per month or around Rs 33 per capita per day and that over 40 per cent are landless and work as manual casual labourers even...
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Why toddlers are on a leash in Delhi -Amulya Gopalakrishnan
-The Times of India Though laws mandate creches, daycare is like a dream for unorganized labourers. A house is being built in Vasant Vihar, one of the many plots in the neighbourhood under construction. Men and wom en are hard at work. On the ground floor, two-year-old Jitin has been standing by a plastic can for a long, long time. A string around his ankle tethers him to a table. "He could hurt...
More »The dumbing down of data -Vikas Kumar
-The Hoot The media coverage of the census data on religion focused on the timing of its release and the politically controversial aspects. Many deeper and more complex layers were totally ignored. VIKAS KUMAR analyses the coverage in painstaking detail to see why journalists handledthe data so superficially census data on religion collected in February-March 2011 was belatedly released on August 25, 2015. This analysis of how the media covered the release and...
More »Bar set too high, 70% out of Rajasthan, Haryana rural polls -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India With the introduction of a minimum educational qualification to contest panchayat elections, an overwhelming majority of the rural population in Haryana and Rajasthan rural population has been effectively barred from contesting. In Haryana the minimum qualification is matriculation for unreserved seats while it is class eighth for seats reserved for women and scheduled caste candidates. census 2011 data shows that only 16% of the rural population aged 20 or...
More »India’s missing disabled population -Sachin P Mampatta
-Livemint.com The highest rates of disability are amongst those who are vision-impaired, and those who have problems to do with movement Nirmita Narasimhan remembers the census takers coming to her home. They didn’t ask her question number nine. It was about disability. They said that it makes people uncomfortable. Narasimhan is a policy director who works on disability issues at The Centre for Internet and Society, an NGO. She insisted that they...
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