-The Indian Express Estimates based on SECC and NSS data have different purposes. Recently, the government released data from the Socio-Economic caste Census (SECC) 2011. There has been comment that hereafter, we need not have consumption-based poverty estimates using NSS (National Sample Surveys) data. It is thought that SECC data will alone be enough to estimate poverty and deprivation. Here, we briefly examine the differences between the two and clarify that...
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Modi govt likely to re-promulgate land ordinance for record 4th time
-PTI NEW DELHI: The government is likely to promulgate the land ordinance for an unprecedented fourth time after conclusion of Parliament's monsoon session, with no consensus still in sight on the contentious bill. The Joint Committee of Parliament headed by BJP MP SS Ahluwalia, which is looking into the contentious legislation, meanwhile plans to seek a two-week extension till August 3 to finalize its report. Indications are that the panel is unlikely to...
More »Limits of the SECC Data
-Economic and Political Weekly This is not "big data" to be used to cut down welfare expenditure. It was the Ministry of Rural Development which, for close to five years beginning in 2010, designed, planned and oversaw the execution of the 2011 Socio Economic and caste Census (SECC), whose first batch of results were released earlier this month. Yet, it was somewhat unusual to see Union Minister for Finance, Arun Jaitley, rather...
More »Pond water here is still ‘untouchable’ -Sathish GT
-The Hindu Kuruvanka (Hassan district, Karnataka): People residing in Dalit colony in Kuruvanka village in Channarayapatna taluk are not allowed to touch water in the village pond. This has been the practice from time immemorial. If they want water, they have to request someone from the ‘upper’ castes in the village to pour water in their pots. When this reporter visited the village on Friday, an elderly woman from the colony was...
More »India’s socio-economic census threatens to exclude crores of poor from social schemes -Anumeha Yadav
-Scroll.in The census says 7 of 17 crore rural households face no 'deprivation' despite living in extreme poverty. If the government follows this definition, all these people will be left out of country’s social safety net. The findings of the Socio Economic and caste Census 2011 have been long awaited by academics and politicians alike. Now that they are out, there is a fear that they could end up being used to...
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