-The Hindu Business Line In the last 5 years, 14,034 ryots from the State — 8 a day — have killed themselves Pune: In the last five years (2014-18), Maharashtra saw 14,034 farmers — that’s eight a day — end their lives. In fact, over 4,500 committed suicide after the State announced a ?34,000-crore loan waiver in June 2017. This information on farmer-suicides over the last five years has come to light from...
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Political meddling in economic data puts India's global reputation at risk, warn 108 leading experts
-Scroll.in They observed that data unfavourable to the government was getting revised or suppressed on the basis of questionable methodologies. A group of economists and social scientists on Thursday urged the Indian government to restore the integrity of statistical organisations as their national and global reputation was “at stake”. Any data unfavourable to the government “seems to get revised or suppressed on the basis of some questionable methodology”, they said, citing some...
More »108 economists & social scientists accuse Modi govt of blocking unfavourable data -Remya Nair
-ThePrint.in The scholars slammed the Modi govt for ‘political influence’, pointing at the decision to withhold NSSO jobs data and to alter GDP data from the UPA era. New Delhi: A group of 108 economists and social scientists came together Thursday to protest against what they said was the Narendra Modi government’s move to revise or withhold the release of unfavourable economic data. The NDA government has been under fire for its...
More »How Many Jobs Did MUDRA Create? Modi Won't Tell You Before Election
-Newsclick.in Earlier, the government stopped the release of the NSSO report on unemployment for 2017-18 and the sixth Labour Bureau annual employment-unemployment survey. Both showed an unprecedented rise in job losses. New Delhi: For the third time, the Narendra Modi government has stopped the release of Government data on jobs created in the country before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Indian Express reported on March 14, 2019 that a survey by the...
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-The Indian Express Economic data raises questions about missed opportunities and expending of political capital by NDA government. As India’s political parties switch to poll mode, economic data released in the past few days at the end of the NDA government’s term paints a far from rosy picture. Industrial growth in January slowed down to 1.7 per cent compared to the 2.6 per cent growth in factory output in December last...
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