-The Indian Express The RBI, however, said the Economy.will break out of contraction of the six months gone by and return to positive growth in the October-December quarter of 2020-21. Mumbai: The Indian Economy.likely entered into a technical recession for the first time in history at the end of the first half of 2020-21, according to the Reserve Bank of India. After an unprecedented decline of 23.9 per cent in GDP...
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Centre rolls out ₹1.19 lakh-crore stimulus package
-The Hindu Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan 3.0 includes scheme to incentivise new recruitment. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a fresh set of relief and stimulus measures for the Economy.worth ₹1.19 lakh crore, including a scheme to boost re-employment chances of formal sector employees who lost their jobs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The measures, announced a day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the country had entered into a...
More »Employment, finally an election issue -Santosh Mehrotra and JK Parida
-The Hindu Several myths persist about job creation, which can misguide policymaking Jobs are rarely far from the minds of citizenry. Politicians woke up to this fact in the run-up to the Bihar Assembly elections. It is for the first time that unemployment has become a big issue in an election. This is not surprising. Rising unemployment The Economy.had been slowing for nine quarters prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Before the 2019 Lok...
More »A new market intelligence and price information for farm produce on anvil -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line Farmers who would be selling their produce at farmgate under the recently-enacted Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion & Facilitation) Act 2020 will have real-time access to prevailing commodity prices through a market intelligence and price information system, which will be up and running soon, according to top Agriculture Ministry sources. One of the major contentions of a section of farmers protesting against the new farm legislations was...
More »Do recent indicators hint at a real economic revival? -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu After India’s Economy.collapsed in the first quarter of 2020-21 following the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, some economic indicators from September and October, from power consumption to GST collections, suggest that things are improving. But is this a sustainable recovery under way, or just an expression of pent-up demand combined with India’s festive-season spending? In a conversation moderated by Vikas Dhoot, Naushad Forbes and M....
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