-IndiaToday.in The production-linked incentive scheme has helped boost India's mobile exports but is yet to show results in some other sectors. Agility and ease of doing business in its implementation will determine its success For over a decade, the share of manufacturing in India’s GDP has remained in the 15-17 per cent range, with various measures by the present and past governments barely helping the needle move. A recent effort to give...
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Agri Workers’ Tiny Wage Rise Wiped Out by Inflation -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in In the past five years, agri workers’ wage has increased by only about Rs.15 per year. For those leaders of the country who are tearing their hair trying to figure out how to get the economy moving, boost growth, increase investment and create jobs, it would be instructive to look at the plight of the largest economic class in the country – agricultural labourers. Numbering upward of 14 crore, they are...
More »Demand grows, but DNA tests fall under a grey area -Krishnadas Rajagopal and Sreeparna Chakrabarty
-The Hindu While Supreme Court has voiced concerns over their increasing use to prove a case, women’s rights activists deem the technology an empowering tool Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA tests occupy a grey area in the quest for justice, vacillating between the dangers of slipping into self-incrimination and encroachment of individual privacy and the ‘eminent need’ to unearth the truth, be in the form of evidence in a criminal case, a claim...
More »Small Gains Made in Recovering COVID-Induced Losses in India's Fight Against TB: WHO Report -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in Increasing TB incidence and deaths, large gaps in reporting, more drug resistance and reduced funding all contribute to India's downslide in TB eradication efforts, contributing heavily to the worsening global scenario as well. New Delhi: The headline finding of the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2022, released on October 27, continued to be the SAMe as it was for 2021 – COVID-19 has reversed years of progress towards the goal of eliminating...
More »More than 80% of women commuters faced sexual harassment but only 1% reported it, here's why -SAMrat Sharma
-IndiaToday.in Over 80 per cent of surveyed women in Delhi faced sexual harassment but only 1 per cent reported it to the police. The importance of a well-oiled public transport system in cities has become a growing concern lately. Poverty, expansion of cities, climate change — several things factor into this discussion. But this discussion is incomplete without addressing the elephant in the room: rampant sexual harassment faced by women in public...
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