-The Hindu Business Line The CAG report details how these have neither helped industrial development nor boosted the economy Nearly a decade after the Special Economic Zones Act was brought into force, it is evident that the move has not helped industrial development. After examining SEZs in terms of background and objectives, fiscal incentives and facilities, approval process and administration, as well as life cycle, State-wise distribution and overall performance, parts of a...
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North India's cities the most polluted, south's cleanest -Dake Kang
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Almost all of the most polluted cities in India are located in the north with Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan dominating the list, according to a WHO report on the most polluted cities in the world published earlier this year. Incidentally, UP, Punjab and Delhi also lie in the fog belt of northern India and there's Evidence to show that air pollution is worsening the problem....
More »The great forgetting -Himanshu
-The Indian Express The Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of agricultural households, released last week by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), is the second one ever to be done. The SAS of 2003 was necessitated by the agrarian crisis of the time. Farmer suicides had reached a peak, and the reference year for the survey, 2002-2003, had seen severe drought. The agricultural sector was in crisis, with growth rates slowing to...
More »Disturbing finding: When first born is female, sex ratio of second child falls -Anahita Mukherji
-The Times of India How does a preference for boys over girls skew the child sex ratio? Does the neglect of a girl child result in a dip in the sex ratio? How does one quantify neglect? These are some of the issues explored in a recently released report, 'World of Indian Girls-2014', authored by academicians from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences for the NGO Save the Children. The report, which...
More »MGNREGA works well for the poor -Clement Imbert and John Papp
-Livemint.com Evaluating the impact of MGNREGA on rural labour markets, and on urban labour markets via seasonal migration Policymakers and academics are actively debating the efficacy of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and whether or not the new government should retain it in its current form in recent research. We have evaluated the impact of MGNREGA on rural labour markets, and on urban labour markets via seasonal migration....
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