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A Low Growth, No Employment and No Hope Budget for ‘Aspirational India’ -KP Kannan

-Economic and Political Weekly The Union Budget of 2020 is conspicuous by its non-recognition of the ongoing and widely discussed slowdown of the economy, let alone its impact on the different sections of the people. Given the negative growth in Employment and consumption in the rural economy, the budget seems like a cruel joke on the plight of the poor, in general, and women, in particular. Instead of measures for boosting...

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Where are the jobs for the girls? -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

-Macroscan.org The recent labour force survey points to declines in all forms of work performed by women, including unpaid labour! Women are the worst casualties of the Employment crisis in India. Please click here to read more. This article was originally published in the Business Line on February 25, 2020. ...

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Government data shows fall in job creation by schemes -Swati Mathur

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Some of the flagship Employment generation and placement schemes, such as the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) and Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission, are expected to see a sharp decline in job creation during the current fiscal, according to data tabled in Parliament. Details provided by the labour & Employment ministry states that the number of jobs generated under PMEGP plummeted from 5.87 lakh...

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Union Budget 2020-21: An expert's guide to rural distress -Jitendra

-Down to Earth Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis These are desperate times for India. Rural unEmployment was at a 45-year-high while consumption expenditure of rural families fell 9 per cent between 2011-12 and 2017-18, according to a report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), which the government never released but got leaked to the media in November 2019. Between 2011-12 and 2015-16, the income of farmers...

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Raw deal for farmers -Vijoo Krishnan

-Frontline.in The Budget lacks any serious effort to address the main issues of unEmployment, agrarian distress and falling incomes, revealing a high level of official insensitivity. A Budget during a time of recession, increasing unEmployment, agrarian distress, falling incomes, demand constraint and malnutrition would have done well to first acknowledge the mess that policies have created and then taken steps to provide Employment, boost rural incomes, increase purchasing power and thereby demand. Coming...

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