-The Telegraph Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia on Monday sought from Prime Minister Narendra Modi a central package of at least Rs 20,000 crore for relief and rehabilitation work in areas Guwahati: 11 dead on Monday and over 2 lakh in relief camps in Assam, Reports ndtv.com Leader of Opposition in Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia on Monday sought from Prime Minister Narendra Modi a central package of at least Rs 20,000 crore for...
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Do We Know What has Happened to Poverty since 2011-12? -Himanshu
-The India Forum The government's lack of respect for national surveys on consumption has meant that the door has been opened to preparation of unofficial estimates on poverty made on questionable assumptions. Two such recent estimates highlight the need to resume collection of data to get a true picture of poverty The government of India does not seem to be interested in knowing how many poor there are in the country. The missing...
More »Our employment data should be interpreted cautiously -Himanshu
-Livemint.com This is the fourth report in the PLFS data series and offers information on both employment and unemployment for rural as well as urban areas. Earlier this week, India’s ministry of statistics and programme implementation released the annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the reference period July 2020 to June 2021. This is the fourth report in the PLFS data series and offers information on both employment...
More »In India, What Explains Distribution Margins and Drug Prices Being Linked? -Murali Neelakantan and Ashish Kulkarni
-TheWire.in A Tata Nano pays the same toll to go from Mumbai and Pune on the expressway as does a Rolls Royce. Why should pharmaceutical products be any different? On May 26, amid news Reports about yet another closed-door meeting that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) had had with unspecified stakeholders, we were reminded of an interesting press release that the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers had issued in July 2021. The...
More »Tribal starvation call for Jharkhand officials -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph NHRC has summoned chief secretary and Garhwa district magistrate-cum-deputy commissioner to personally appear before it on June 29 Jamshedpur: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Jharkhand chief secretary and the Garhwa district magistrate-cum-deputy commissioner to personally appear before it on June 29 over the failure to submit Reports relating to tribals starving because of lack of rations. The NHRC order on Tuesday, which followed the hearing of a...
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