-NDTV.com At a time when Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation has remained above RBI's upper tolerance level of 6% for seven consecutive months and the WPI inflation rates are at the highest levels since January 2007, it is good that the issue was finally discussed in parliament and the RBI's recent rate hike signals recognition of the concern. However, during the debate in the parliament, the Treasury bench largely took a...
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More than half the funds for POSHAN Abhiyaan unutilised: NITI Aayog report -Taran Deol
-Down to Earth The scheme has an earmarked three-year budget of Rs 9,046.17 crore from 2017-18, when it was launched Less than half the funds set aside for the POSHAN Abhiyaan have been utilised by India’s states, according to the fourth progress report released by the NITI Aayog September 1, 2022. States and Union territories (UTs) with Poor distribution of mobile phones and growth monitoring devices emerged as those with low fund utilisation....
More »Protest against eviction drives in Delhi-NCR and other cities
-Press release by Freedom from Bondage movement dated 6 September, 2022 New Delhi: As we mark #75thIndependenceDay & #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav, thousands of people who have been evicted from their homes in slums, Jhuggies, settlement colonies and informal sector workers who have been denied their livelihood without any rehabilitation have gathered at Jantar Mantar to raise their voice against the “Bulldozer Raj”. The government is forcibly snatching the land of Poor Dalits and...
More »If India Is To Fight Corruption, the Focus Must Be on Dam Projects -Amit Ranjan
-TheWire.in While the dam breach in Madhya Pradesh's Karam river is a recent example of Poor construction quality, the politician-contractor-engineer nexus in these projects has long been known. In his eighth Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2022, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the need to fight against corruption and nepotism. Highlighting the steps his government has taken to check corruption, Modi said: “In the...
More »India’s urban unemployment rate improves across genders, age groups to best-ever level: Survey -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times The quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey also suggests that at least some of this improvement is because of a higher than usual engagement in Poor quality jobs in the quarter ending June 2022 New Delhi: After recovering to pre-pandemic levels in the quarter ending March 2022, India’s urban unemployment rate improved across genders and age groups to its best-ever level in the quarter ending June 2022, according...
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