-Hindustan Times An Indian farmer earned ₹27 per day on average from cultivation in 2018-19. This is less than what he would have earned doing MGNREGS Work through the year. An Indian farmer earned ₹27 per day on average from cultivation in 2018-19. This is less than what he would have earned doing MGNREGS Work through the year. These numbers underline the magnitude of the viability crisis in Indian agriculture. India’s inability to shift...
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Why Does Bonded Labour Still Persist in India? -Leaflet.in
-Leaflet.in/ Newsclick.in While we may have entered the 21st century, bonded labour is still a reality in India. Manav Gupta and Kashish Gupta analyse the laws in India to probondtect from bonded labour and comment on the inadequacy of State initiatives to curb this menace. Last month, a man was booked by police in Palghar district’s Mokhada for allegedly putting a tribal villager who had borrowed Rs. 500 from him into bonded...
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-The Hindu A troubled Meghalaya will see unrest growing until 2023, when the next elections are due, says the editor of ‘The Shillong Times’, Patricia Mukhim On August 13, an ailing former leader of an armed group was shot dead in the middle of the night at his home in Shillong by a police team. The incident led to unrest in Mawlai where the encounter occurred and resonated in the adjoining neighbourhoods...
More »Why is it difficult for children from underprivileged sections of the society to get their lessons online? Read this new report to know.
Remote teaching and learning promoted by Edtech companies as an alternative to physical classrooms, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a sizeable consumer base in our country. However, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are only a few takers of online education. In reality, class and caste-divide, which is more prominent in rural areas, affects access to digital learning. The majority of the school going...
More »Women Farmers Are Losing Jobs, Earnings, Savings Even As Agriculture Booms -Shreya Raman and Geeta Devi
-IndiaSpend.com The reverse migration sparked by the 2020 lockdown led to a drop in the demand for women farm Workers who have few other job opportunities in villages Mumbai, Ayodhya, Mahoba: "A day's farm Work pays about Rs 250 but women earn even less, sometimes around Rs 100. But now that those who Work in the cities are back, women's daily earnings are almost down to Rs 50," said Kranti Azad, 27,...
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