-The Hindu There remain delays in the stage where the Central government transfers wages to the workers’ accounts There is a famous parable of the 13th-century mystic Mullah Nasruddin. He was once spotted under a street light searching frantically for a key that he had lost. A passer-by noticed the frazzled Nasruddin and stopped to help him. After both of them spent a long time searching for the key, the exasperated passer-by...
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Farming became costlier between crop years 2012-13 and 2018-19, shows the latest available NSO data
One is almost certain to hear this from an economist that if something is available at free of cost or at a subsidised rate thanks to government intervention, then people tend to overuse or overconsume such goods/ commodities. So, the best solution is to create a market for such 'almost freely available' or 'highly subsidised' goods or commodities. Once people start paying to use or consume such goods/ commodities, they...
More »3,197 schools in odisha have just one teacher, reveals UNESCO report
-The New Indian Express The UNESCO report states that in odisha, all recruitment so far have been indirect, conducted via promotions and regularisation of the existing contractual teachers. BHUBANESWAR: AS many as 3,197 schools across odisha - both government and private - are functioning with just one teacher. Worse, 88 per cent (pc) of these schools are located in rural odisha. This has been revealed by UNESCO in its ‘No Teacher, No...
More »Are we witnessing depeasantisation in Indian agriculture?
The newly released Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round) establishes the fact that the farm households are more and more relying on wage incomes instead of 'net incomes from crop cultivation' for their livelihoods. In Marxian lexicon, proletarisation (a term that we can loosely use for depeasantisation) refers to the process in which the farmers/ tillers are...
More »Conduct study on success of children from Naxal-hit areas: odisha CM to Centre
-The New Indian Express odisha CM Naveen Patnaik said that from 70 per cent of the state's 30 districts being hit during the peak of Naxal activities, odisha now hardly has parts of three districts affected by it. BHUBANESWAR: odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday requested the Centre to conduct a study on how many children from the left-wing extremism (LWE) affected areas across the country are getting into national level...
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