-The Indian Express Reducing its use in agriculture is the most effective way of solving India’s water problem. Spiritual teachers tell us that if we stay calm in the face of a crisis, our response is more likely to be meaningful, effective and sustainable. Like good scientists, they also advise us to maintain a clear and steady view of the facts of the SITuation, and then act accordingly. Those trying to solve...
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Business leaders seek Rs 1 trillion govt stimulus to revive economy
-PTI Industry leaders met Finance Minister Nirmala SITharaman in New Delhi for three hours. Businesses on Thursday asked the government for a stimulus package of over Rs 1 trillion to restart investments and revive the economy. Industry leaders, who met Finance Minister Nirmala SITharaman in New Delhi for three hours, said the government will soon take action to boost economic growth. "The economy requires a critical intervention by introducing a stimulus package. We have...
More »NRC and the work permit formula -Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
-Livemint.com * An exclusive excerpt from a forthcoming book on the Assam Accord takes a critical look at the NRC crisis * The passage analyses the pros and cons of the debate over a work-permit formula to deal with the SITuation. One of the foremost thinkers to academically elaborate on the formula (of work permits in Assam) was author–journalist–rights activist Sanjoy Hazarika in Rites of Passage: Border Crossings, Imagined Homelands, India’s East and...
More »India's economy is in such deep slump that lowering interest rates alone won't fix it -Rahul Menon
-Scroll.in/ qz.com There are parallels between India’s economic SITuation today and the US experience of 2008. The Indian economy is facing one of its most challenging times in years, and policymakers are responding to the crisis through monetary measures, such as tweaking key interest rates. But how far can this go in reviving growth? On August 7, the Reserve Bank of India, in its bi-monthly monetary policy meeting, lowered its growth projection for...
More »Most regular jobs in India don't pay well: PLFS -Ishan Anand & Anjana Thampi
-Livemint.com Around 45% of salaried workers — the best-paid workers in India — earned less than Rs.10,000 per month, and only about 4% of them earned more than Rs.50,000 per month in 2017-18 The much-awaited report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-18 has highlighted the difficult job SITuation with 6.1% of India’s labour force, and 17.8% of young people (15-29 years) in the labour force reporting to be unemployed. The recently...
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