-Newsclick.in It is easy to see why Dalit entrepreneurs get celebrated, but the market is not casteless, as the media projects. Chandra Bhan Prasad, a noted advocate of entrepreneurship as a way to emancipate Dalits, acknowledged in a recent interview that capitalism breeds inequality. Prasad and the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI), an organisation he supports and promotes, posit Dalit capitalism as an emancipatory tool. DICCI has steered Dalit-run...
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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 »Common survey to count India’s elephant and tiger populations -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Pressing need to improve and harmonise the population estimation methods: Environment Minister From December, India will move to a system that will count tigers and elephants as part of a common survey. The tiger survey is usually held once in four years and elephants are counted once in five years. According to the most recent 2018-19 survey, there were 2,997 tigers in India. According to the last count in 2017,...
More »New-age check dams built under MGNREGA cost less, give more -Rishikesh Bahadur Desai
-The Hindu The project is unique because the design consumes less concrete and the dams last longer than traditional stone masonry ones BELAGAVI: The State government is promoting construction of new generation check dams across natural streams, rivulets and other waterbodies under the MGNREGA programme. Over 5,000 multiple arch buttress check dams (MACD) have come up under MGNREGA, 1,820 in the last two years. The project is unique because the design consumes less...
More »Study Reveals Covid-Led Job Loss is Forcing People to Beg on the Streets of Delhi: Report
-News18.com Those forced to take up begging due to loss of work during the pandemic include women involved in domestic work, temporary workers in hotels, poverty unemployment. The latest study by Institute for Human Development (IHD) between February and April this year, by the Delhi government has revealed that more than half of those surveyed (52 per cent) are “new entrants” who have taken up begging during the past five years and...
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