-Newsclick.in The swollen river Ganga is posing a serious threat of floods in state capital Patna as well, as water has entered low lying areas in past 48 hours. Patna: More than 17 lakh people have been affected by the floods in Bihar. The floods have claimed the lives of half a dozen people, washed away hundreds of thatched huts, severely damaged houses, roads, bridges and standing crops worth crores, officials said...
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Nandini Oza, an activist of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), interviewed by Swapna Majumdar (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The archivist and activist on curating the oral history of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and its importance as a movement of the marginalised As an activist of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), Nandini Oza lived and worked among the people affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) for over a decade. Having participated in the movement and documented its oral history through the voices of its leaders, she felt it...
More »Retail inflation eased to 5.6% in July
-The Hindu Industrial output growth halves from 28.6% in May to 13.6% in June Retail inflation cooled slightly to 5.6% in July, slipping below the central bank’s upper tolerance threshold of 6% for the first time in three months, even as industrial output growth halved from 28.6% in May to 13.6% in June, as base effects from the national lockdown of 2020 begin to fade. Food prices at the consumer level PLAyed a...
More »Official data corroborates deepening of livelihood crisis in urban areas during the 2020 nationwide lockdown
The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...
More »Can govt’s targeted welfare override inflation concern? -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times The budgetary allocations for Ujjwala, which is listed as money for “LPG connections to the poor” in the ministry of petroleum’s budget, was just ₹21,365.81 crore between 2016-17 and 2020-21. With the Prime Minister launching the second module of the Ujjwala Yojana from Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has, in a way, started its election campaign for the crucial state which goes to the polls in early...
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