-The Tribune In Sirsa, private players are buying cotton at up to Rs 9,700 per quintal whereas the government has fixed the MSP at Rs 5,925 Sirsa: The low cotton yield this season due to excessive rain and pink bollworm Attack has resulted in the crop selling at over 60 per cent higher than the minimum support price (MSP). In Sirsa, private players are buying cotton at up to Rs 9,700 per...
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The Curious Case of India's Millions of ‘Missing’ Poor People -KD Maiti and Santosh Mehrotra
-TheWire.in There is a need to set right the ‘national multidimensional poverty index’ framework to capture the true story of deprivation. The global sustainable development agenda demands that countries measure the population living in poverty and reduce it by at least half by 2030. So, in order to monitor progress on this critical development indicator, UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) compute what is called the ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’...
More »Ghaziabad most polluted city, says NCAP report
-PTI/ The Hindu Delhi in 2nd spot with highest PM 2.5 level Delhi and most of the other non-Attainment cities under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)have shown only a marginal improvement, said a new analysis released on Monday. Some of the cities have even recorded an increase in particulate matter (PM) levels, it said. Cities are declared non-Attainment if they consistently fail to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) over...
More »Misleading Picture of Household Wealth -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org In recent years, when the economy as a whole performed poorly, reports on how old and new businesspersons accumulated huge volumes of wealth in short timespans have been commonplace. There is also evidence that conspicuous consumption is on the rise. This has led observers to conclude that income and wealth inequality in India has increased. Hard evidence on the extent of that increase is difficult to...
More »Can’t let mob lynching over cow slaughter go on: SC on Bulandshahr cop’s murder -Utkarsh Anand
-Hindustan Times The court sends a former Bajrang Dal leader back to jail for allegedly leading a mob that killed a police officer in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district in December 2018. Lynching because of suspected cow slaughter cannot be permitted, observed the Supreme Court on Monday as it sent a former Bajrang Dal leader back to jail for allegedly leading a mob that killed a police officer in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district...
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