-The Hindu Business Line ‘Results of previous survey soon, but they will be used only for academic purpose’ Amidst all the controversies on the previous Household Consumer Expenditure Survey, the Statistics Ministry intends to start new survey from July. Also, the Ministry has made it clear that the results of the previous survey will be made public after some time but only for academic purpose. “The software vendor for the survey has been...
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Four pillars of Indian justice system miss one major force- Women -Shreehari Paliath
-India Spend/ Business Standard The India Justice Report by Tata Trusts released on November 7, 2019, finds women poorly represented, accounting for 7 per cent of the police 10 per cent of prison Staff At the current rate, nine Indian states will take more than 50 years to increase the share of women in their police forces to 33 per cent, as recommended, a new report estimates. While Madhya Pradesh will take...
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-Hindustan Times A garden can provide a context to students for understanding seasonality and life cycles of food; it can provide an opportunity to work cooperatively on real tasks; students can learn about where food comes from; and they can observe all of the principles of ecology in practice The Union human resource development (MHRD) ministry recently asked all schools (rural and urban) in the country to set up kitchen gardens. The...
More »Under BJP Govt, data comes to Delhi? and dies -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in NSSO, Livestock Census, NCRB, even Census data, are slowly getting strangled by delays but more so by wilful omissions of parts. In the past five and a half years, several key data releases have been excised, mangled, delayed or even suppressed. Since these are all generated, collated and processed by dedicated departments of the central government, it is not a leap of imagination that there is some deliberate intent behind this. Stray...
More »Economic slowdown hits Bengaluru hard; layoffs, pay cuts up to 30 per cent -Ashwini M Sripad
-The New Indian Express BENGALURU: The economic slowdown has not just affected big industries, but also medium and small scale industries, with several firms in Bengaluru either sacking their employees in large numbers or asking them to continue with up to 30 per cent cut in salaries. Several affected employees have approached the State Labour Department seeking directions to their companies to protect their jobs and their salaries. Labour Minister S Suresh...
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