-The Telegraph However, experts say this is largely an illusion caused by a distressed population increasingly taking up low-paid informal jobs A government survey has portrayed an improved unemployment situation between July 2019 and June 2020 on certain parameters, but experts say this is largely an illusion caused by a distressed population increasingly taking up low-paid informal jobs. Besides, while one standard of measurement in the survey appears to show an improvement, another...
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Why the CAG has raised questions about the Yogi Adityanath government’s spending on Kumbh 2019 -Ashish Misra
-IndiaToday.in Irregularities worth hundreds of crores have been flagged in a CAG report on preparation works for Kumbh 2019, the most expensive public event in Uttar Pradesh’s history Lucknow: On August 19, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) filed a report on the Yogi Adityanath government’s arrangements for the Kumbh Mela 2019 in Prayagraj. The report was presented by Principal Accountant General B.K. MoHAnty. It highlighted irregularities worth hundreds of crores of...
More »Junior union minister refuses to increase paltry pension under NSAP -Basant Kumar MoHAnty
-The Telegraph India spends only 0.04 per cent of its GDP on social security pension; several states add to the pension from their own funds Sulochana Behera eagerly waits for her old-age pension of Rs 500 every month at her home in Garh Nipania village in Puri district, Odisha. Within hours of receiving the sum, the widowed Sulochana spends it all on medicine and food that barely last a week. She then starts...
More »What’s behind the ‘improvement’ in employment situation in labour force survey report -PC MoHAnan
-ThePrint.in The improved employment scenario as per PLFS 2019-20 is restricted to women and is due to the increased percentage of rural women in the unpaid family worker category. The National Statistical Office (NSO) has recently released the third annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the year 2019-20 and also the quarterly estimates for urban areas based on the panel survey of urban households till June 2020. At...
More »Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 teenagers rescued -Hrusikesh MoHAnty
-Down to Earth The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station Child trafficking has seen a spurt in Odisha — especially in tribal-dominated districts of the state — following the resumption of train services amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. At least 20 adolescents, mostly girls (18) aged 15-17, have been rescued by activists from non-profit Childline Foundation of India (CFI), from Berhampur railway station in Ganjam district from July...
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