-TheWire.in Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode. In a perspicacious commentary on the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP), social scientist Satish Deshpande noted that multiple exit options “will certainly help in renaming drop-outs as certificate or diploma-holders. But they cannot ensure that these credentials will bring significant benefits for...

-TheWire.in An investigation into the scheme's operations in eight districts by the state accountant general has revealed leakages in several areas of the scheme, from the identification of beneficiaries to the production amounts, transport and quality control. New Delhi: A recent report by Madhya Pradesh’s accountant general has revealed large-scale corruption in several stages of the state’s free nutrition scheme for women and children – the Take Home Ration (THR) scheme, according...

-Newsclick.in Farmers' organisations said that the prices of seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, fuel and others have spiked the cost of production, but the paddy MSP has been increased by only Rs 1 per kg. Chennai: Paddy farmers in Tamil Nadu are disappointed with the recently fixed minimum support price (MSP) for paddy. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, on August 30, announced the paddy prices for the upcoming procurement season of 2022-23. It...

-Scroll.in An excerpt from ‘The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India,’ by Jayati Ghosh. There was much that was wrong with the Indian economy, society, and polity before the pandemic struck; and this book has suggested that much more has gone wrong since. It is easy to feel horror at the inequalities exposed and accentuated by governmental and societal responses to the pandemic, despair...

-NDTV.com The Madhya Pradesh Accountant General found large-scale fraud and irregularities in the ambitious free food scheme for girls and women. Bhopal: From ration transport trucks that were found to be motorcycles to wild exaggeration of the number of beneficiaries, the Madhya Pradesh government's nutrition programme for children has been nobbled by eye-popping levels of corruption, at the risk of leaving them malnourished and costing taxpayers crores of rupees, the state's own...