Door-to-door and village-to-village surveys carried out by researchers of the Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana detected a total of 9,291 suicides that were committed by farmers in six districts of Punjab during the period from 2000 to 2018. Situated in the Malwa region of Punjab, which is known for cotton farming and the prevalence of cancer among its population, Sangrur (2,506) witnessed the highest number of...
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Interim Report of the Fact Finding Team Investigating the Stoppage of MGNREGA Wages in West Bengal
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 28 July 2022 Based on the findings NREGA Sangharsh Morcha put forth the following demands: 1. All the documents pertaining to correspondence between the Central Government and the State Government on MGNREGA since 2019, including the reports of central team visits and action taken, should be made public. 2. The Labour Budget for West Bengal for the FY 2022-23 has to be approved immediately by the...
More »Price pinch: Editorial on the impact of inflation
-The Telegraph The Reserve Bank of India’s usual strategy of raising Interest rates to hold inflation at bay kicked in a bit late and has not been working well so far In India, price inflation has been creeping up in the recent past. The latest data for June 2022 show consumer price index inflation to be 7.01% and wholesale price index inflation to be 15.18%. Food prices, which are an important component...
More »Meet A Ramakrishnan from Theni -- warrior with RTI armour -Jeyalakshmi Ramanujam
-The New Indian Express In another incident, he got information that 13 engineers of Madurai Corporation were being promoted without proper documents. THENI: It’s 5 am on Saturday and A Ramakrishnan is busy packing his bags. He has to travel for long hours to educate a new batch of enthusiasts about the Right To Information (RTI) Act. This routine on Saturdays, over the past 14 years, has taken him across the State. The...
More »As the rupee touches 80 to the dollar, what does this mean for India’s economy? -Deepanshu Mohan
-Scroll.in Costlier imports and the widening of the current account deficit is likely to eat into India’s foreign currency exchange reserves. The Indian rupee touched a historical low, trading almost at Rs 80 against the US dollar on Wednesday. A knee-jerk, macro-analytical response studying India’s currency performance would mistakenly see this trend in isolation, while projecting a weakening of macro-economic fundamentals to be leading towards a depreciation. Looking closely at the numbers it...
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