-The Hindu If it’s the government’s case that NSSO figures are suspect, what has it based policy decisions on? Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said last week, “we definitely have a data crisis,” and blamed academics for creating a “false narrative”. Yet, at the heart of the data crisis in India is the Central government, which has been holding back important data. Most recently, it did...
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Job creation down 1.7% in Feb to 15.03 lakh: ESIC payroll data
-PTI According to the data, the gross new subscribers addition remained the highest at 19.81 lakh in July 2018. New Delhi: Job creation dropped by 1.73 per cent in February to 15.03 lakh compared to 15.30 lakh in the same month last year, according to the latest payroll data of the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). The data showed that during September 2017 to February 2019, nearly 3 crore new subscribers joined the...
More »Extending MGNREGA to urban areas will create 50 million jobs: State Of Working India 2019 report -Ralph Alex Arakal
-The Indian Express Interestingly, researchers observed that as much as 5 million people left the workforce between 2016 and 2018. "The beginning of the decline in jobs coincided with demonetisation in November 2016, although no direct causal relationship can be established based only on these trends," The State of Working India (SWI) 2019 report released by Azim Premji University says. Bengaluru: Researchers and economists of Azim Premji University, based in Bangalore,...
More »Bhopal gas tragedy among world's 'major' accidents of 20th century: UN report
-PTI/ United Nations According to recent estimates released by the ILO, each year 2.78 million Workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases (of which 2.4 million are disease-related). The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed thousands of people is among the world’s “major industrial accidents” of the 20th century, a UN report has said, warning that 2.78 million Workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases each year. The report released...
More »The hysterectomy is modern, but the poverty is primitive
-THe Telegraph Sugarcane labour contractors run a system that discriminates against women by appearing to be gender-neutral After all, it is not genital mutilation. Or vagina sealing. Those are some of the agonizing traditional rituals for girls in various countries intended to make them attractive to men and sexually faithful to their husbands. Attempts to put an end to these practices began in the 1970s, and the United Nations requested healthcare Workers...
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