--Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency dated 31st October, 2022 More than 12 organisations and several individuals were part of a national consultation where issues faced by migrant children were discussed and actionable recommendations were proposed. Bengaluru, Mumbai and New delhi, October 31, 2022: Not-for-profit organisations and civil society institutions have demanded that migrant children be provided the right to quality education immediately and have proposed an actionable framework...
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A month before polls, what is on the Gujarat voter’s mind? -Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Shastri, and Suhas Palshikar
-The Hindu A recent survey on governance and development in the State brings out the importance of the economic plight of the people When Narendra Modi entered the national political arena in 2013-14, he was portrayed as the mascot of the Gujarat model of development. Now, nearly a decade later, do memories of that model resonate with the Gujarati voter? As Assembly elections approach, do the voters of Gujarat still take pride...
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-TheWire.in The Narela industrial complex is one of the biggest in Asia, packed with booming small-scale industrial units. It runs entirely on the labour of low-income workers who have very little say on their pay and living conditions. In order to start liberalising trade and industrial production capacity through economic policy, the Indian nation-state began implementing a set of Washington Consensus style neo-liberal economic reforms in the early 1990s. The liberalisation push across...
More »Small Gains Made in Recovering COVID-Induced Losses in India's Fight Against TB: WHO Report -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in Increasing TB incidence and deaths, large gaps in reporting, more drug resistance and reduced funding all contribute to India's downslide in TB eradication efforts, contributing heavily to the worsening global scenario as well. New delhi: The headline finding of the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2022, released on October 27, continued to be the same as it was for 2021 – COVID-19 has reversed years of progress towards the goal of eliminating...
More »Why Punjab’s farmers are rejecting solutions to curb stubble burning -Vaishnavi Rathore
-Scroll.in After years of criticising the state government, the AAP is now in power in Punjab. But farmers remain sceptical of the proposed solutions to the problem. In early October, the paddy in Punjab’s Sangrur district was in the final stages of ripening. Fields rippled in various shades of green and golden-brown, the latter indicating crop that was almost ready to be harvested. The picturesque landscape belied a problem that the state had...
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