-Forward Press An email interview with one of the foremost development economists against the backdrop of the latest report of the World Inequality Lab describing India as one of the most unequal countries in the world The World Inequality Lab has just published the World Inequality Report 2022. The Paris-based organization, which is directed by top economists, including Thomas Piketty, has painted a grim picture of the inequality in India based on...
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Don't Withhold Pension, Benefits of SC/ST Employees Without Verified Caste Certificates: Parliamentary Panel -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in A list of 136 deprived pensioners was submitted to Committee. It said, "withholding pension benefits for these persons is gross harassment." New Delhi: The Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has recommended that the Department of Personnel and Training should issue guidelines that caste certificates of SC/ST employees be verified within six months of their joining service, failing which they should be treated as authentic unless...
More »Centre's Opaque Auction Rules for Pulses Helped Millers Profit at Expense of Government -Shreegireesh Jalihal and Nitin Sethi
-TheWire.in The auctions let millers earn a bloated revenue of at least Rs 4,600 crore in four years from milling over 5.4 lakh tonnes of raw pulses, hammering government coffers and possibly the quality of daal, show documents. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government allowed millers to fatten themselves on tonnes of pulses meant for the poor by turning an auction procedure on its head. The Reporters’ Collective’s examination of auction archives shows...
More »Book Review: Working Lives in the Shadows of the Global City -Aparna Sundar
-TheWire.in Supriya RoyChowdhury's 'City of Shadows' is a compelling study of the lives of the poor in a rapidly globalising Bengaluru. The long caravans of workers leaving the cities for their villages during the national lockdown in 2020 made visible the large proportion of urban workers whose homes are in the villages. Combined with the farmers’ protests, they brought attention to the crisis in agriculture and the failure of agrarian livelihoods that...
More »Over 8 Lakh Indians Gave Up Citizenship In Last 7 Years: Minister In Lok Sabha
-ANI/ NDTV.com According to the data tabled in the Lower House, a total of 1,11,287 Indians renounced their citizenship in 2021 till September 30. New Delhi: A total 8,81,254 Indian citizens renounced their citizenship in the last seven years till September 30, 2021 as per information available with the Ministry of External Affairs, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday. According to the data tabled in the...
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