-The indian Express Stop filers are individuals who filed returns in earlier years but did not do so in the current year even though they are liable to do so. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Thursday said it “does not have any word ‘Stop Filers’ in its glossary and it does not maintain any database of ‘Stop Filers’ in normal course”. This was in response to the April 4 report...
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Making sense of NYAY -Jean Dreze
-The indian Express It is best read as a political promise for social security. There is more than one way of redeeming it Guaranteed minimum income is a powerful idea that has already made some headway in various countries. Some European countries, for instance, guarantee a minimum income to their citizens. This requires extensive data collection as well as an effective cadre of welfare officers and social workers tasked with enquiring...
More »Revalidate signal to labour bureau on Mudra job creation data -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Only 1.12 crore jobs created in three years under the Mudra scheme, the bureau's data suggested New Delhi: A central government agency has been asked to “revalidate” data which estimated that only 1.12 crore additional jobs were created in three years under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, a scheme Prime Minister Narendra Modi cites to defend his record on employment generation, sources have told The Telegraph. Several independent analysts suspect that...
More »Congress' election manifesto is the right document at the wrong time: Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in The priorities listed by Rahul Gandhi are arguably the issues india should focus on: poverty, farm distress, unemployment, health and the sense of fear. The launch of the Congress’s manifesto Tuesday marked a missed opportunity in this historic Lok Sabha election. Not because this manifesto is a bad document. As far as manifestos of mainstream parties go, this one is more cogent and thought-through than the run-of-the-mill documents. Congress president Rahul...
More »Women farmers are further marginalised, finds research -Ritwika Mitra
-The New indian Express In market-driven agriculture, the crisis deepens with the existing asymmetries between men and women farmers. NEW DELHI: Green Revolution marginalises women farmers pushing them to the fringes, according to a paper by Centre for Social Justice and the Revitalizing Rainfed Agricultural Network. This is primarily because the Green Revolution tends to be dismissive of women’s contributions to agriculture, the paper pointed out. Green Revolution leads to the dismantling of...
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