-TheWire.in How most newspapers missed the real story behind the census data on religion New Delhi: The Muslim population is going up while the population of Hindus is going down. This seems to be the message being spread by the bulk of news reports on the ‘population by religious community’ data released by the census of India on August 25. However, a deeper analysis of the data makes it clear that the population...
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Changes in identification method of welfare scheme beneficiary
-PTI Claiming flaws in the process of identifying beneficiaries of welfare schemes based on the Socio Economic and Caste census (SECC) data, a group of parliamentarians, intellectuals and socials activists today appealed to the Centre to take corrective measures to provide benefits to the deserving lot. In a memorandum submitted to Union Rural Development Minister Birender Singh, the members picked flaws in the process of identifying welfare schemes beneficiaries. "The clearly stated aim...
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-PTI NEW DELHI: As many as five million jobs were lost between 2004-05 and 2009-10 — paradoxically during the time when India's economy grew at a fast clip — an Assocham study said. This has put a question mark on whether economic expansion should be linked to job creation, according to the study. Moreover, it observed that over-emphasis on services and neglect of the manufacturing sector are mainly responsible for this "jobless growth"...
More »Of Poverty, Inequality and gigantic denials -Abhijit Mukhopadhyay
-Bargad.org A good amount of data from Socio Economic and Caste census (SECC) 2011 are out – though the caste data are yet to be divulged to the public. And expectedly there is a demand to make the caste data public as soon as possible. However, currently that is not the point of public discussion. Rather, the survey data show in no uncertain terms the abject poverty and inequality which are...
More »The Socio Economic and Caste census -Jayati Ghosh
-Macroscan.com The Socio Economic and Caste census provides more comprehensive household listings, but the method of determining the poor that has been adopted in the census is deeply flawed. Please click here to read the entire article. This article was originally published in the Frontline, Print edition: August 21, 2015. ...
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