-IDROnline.org While it claims to be a demand-based scheme with an elastic budget, NREGA’s failure to support the rural economy in 2021 indicates otherwise. A comparison of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) demand and supply of work between the FIRst quarter of financial year (FY) 2020, when the national lockdown was in place and the FIRst quarter of FY 2021 when the second wave was at its peak offers...
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What I Learnt From Tailing a Zomato Delivery Worker For a Day -Soumyarendra Barik
-Livewire.thewire.in A few days ago, I reported a story for Entrackr about the life of one Zomato delivery worker in Gurgaon. I tailed him as he went about his day delivering orders, calculating the kilometres he rode for and the money he made at the end of his ten-hour long shift. The story blew up. In this piece, I document some aspects that were left out of the FIRst story to keep...
More »Q1 GDP: Trade, hotel and transport segment clocks 34.3% growth in Q1 -Shreeja Singh
-Moneycontrol.com The sector entered the positive terrain after declining for four quarters in 2020-21. Trade, hotel, transport, communication and services related to broadcasting reported a growth in the FIRst quarter of FY22 as per the data released by National Statistical Office (NSO). Trade, hotel, transport, communication & services related to broadcasting clocked a growth of 34.3 percent in the April-June quarter. Please click here to read more. Kindly click here to access the press note...
More »Dalit Times reporter covering slum demolition detained in Delhi -Avdhesh Kumar
-Newslaundry.com Srishti Jatav says the police held her for three hours, snatched away her phone and deleted the videos she had made. “I had learned that Delhi Development Authority and Delhi police officials were at Dhobi Ghat, Jamia Nagar, to remove some slum dwellings. When I reached there to cover it, the police took me and my cameraman Raju into custody,” she told Newslaundry. “The police FIRst snatched away our camera and...
More »The Prospect of a Telecom Monopoly -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-NetworkIdeas.org With its gross debt as of March 31, 2021 placed at Rs. 1.8 lakh crore and losses in the preceding quarter totalling more than Rs. 7,000 crore, Vi (former Vodafone Idea), once India’s largest telecom company in terms of subscriber base, is staring at bankruptcy. In a last-ditch effort to win state support to survive, Kumar Mangalam Birla, the Chairman of Vi, wrote to the government in June, offering to...
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