-Scroll.in Anganwadi staff are vital to ensuring the wellbeing of India’s children. Yet in 2006, the Supreme Court refused to recognise them as Government employees. The Government of Karnataka needed a hundred women. It was 1982, the new Integrated Child Development Services scheme was about to launch in the state, and according to the advertisement in the local newspaper, these work opportunities were available specifically for women who had completed Class 10. Ameenabi...
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Government set to raise subsidy on fertilizers to cool prices for farmers -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com Fertilizer department said in the presentation that international prices of fertilizers and raw materials have been constantly rising since January 2021 NEW DELHI: The central Government is set to raise the subsidy on fertilizers for the kharif crop season to cool prices to farmers, the department of fertilizers said in a presentation on Tuesday even as worries of protracted disruptions in key commodities continued to rattle global commodity and financial markets....
More »Caste inequalities within socio-religious groups: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh -Srinivas Goli and Chhavi Tiwari
-IdeasForIndia.in The Mandal Commission and Sachar Committee reports, among others, have indicated the existence of caste inequalities within the four major caste groups. However, data on this subject remain limited. Using data from a novel 2014-2015 survey conducted in Uttar Pradesh, this article shows that within-group inequalities among upper castes are significantly less, relative to the within-group inequalities observed among both Hindu and Muslim OBCs and Dalits. Broadly, four social groups –...
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-The Telegraph Centre questions each estimation exercise, says the numbers have emerged from extrapolation, limited datasets and unproven assumptions New Delhi: A top public health expert has urged the Government to help resolve the intense debate over India’s Covid-19 death toll by using the population census later this year to directly count the dead over the past two years. Prabhat Jha, professor at the Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto, Canada, who...
More »What does high WPI inflation mean for interest rates? -Dinesh Unnikrishnan
-Moneycontrol.com The spike in WPI will put more pressure on the rate-setting body to initiate a tight policy stance On April 18, the Government data showed that India's inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) rose to a four-month high of 14.55 percent in March from 13.11 percent in February. With this, the WPI inflation has now been in double-digit territory for 12 consecutive months. What is the significance of this data?...
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