The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round), which was released recently, informs one about farm households' income in the crop year 2018-19 and indebtedness in 2019 (as on the date of survey), among other things. Prior to the recent report, Land and Livestock Holding Surveys (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households used to be...
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The end of the doing business rankings -R Nagaraj
-The Hindu The Ease of Doing Business index was plagued with problems and deserves to be scrapped On September 16, the World Bank Group scrapped its flagship publication, the ‘Doing Business’ report. This report publishes the influential annual ranking of countries on the Ease of Doing Business (EDB) index. The Group acted on its commissioned study to examine the ethical issues flagged in preparing the 2018 and 2020 editions of the EDB...
More »Almost 78 per cent jobs lost in media and publishing industry in 5 years: CMIE survey
-National Herald The media and publishing industry employed over 10.3 lakh people across India in September 2016 and now in August 2021, it employs 2.3 lakh only, according to a survey by the CMIE At least 78% of those working in the media and publishing industry have lost their jobs, according to a survey by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). The media and publishing industry employed over 10.3 lakh people...
More »With New ‘Industrial Relations’ Code, What Does the Future Look Like for India’s Trade Unions? -Soumya Jha and Ulka Bhattacharyya
-TheWire.in Amidst the pandemic, digital acceleration and related developments in the US and the UK, provisions in the Code address India's absence of a central framework to recognise and regulate trade unions. The roll-out of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 and the draft Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of Disputes of Trade Unions Rules, 2021 as part of India’s labour reforms initiative, is in the...
More »Why child marriage is in focus: Looking at Rajasthan law, Punjab and Haryana HC ruling -Prabhash K Dutta
-IndiaToday.in NCRB data found a sharp jump in child marriages during the Covid-hit 2020. Records show that 785 cases were registered across the country under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act in 2020, the highest in Karnataka at 184. In January this year, a 27-year-old woman approached the Delhi High Court with a plea seeking to treat all child marriages as void ab initio (invalid from the beginning). She was a...
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