-Financial Express The state desperately needs a strategy for labour-intensive manufacturing; the attacks on cattle-trade have knocked down its once-thriving leather industry In 1955, the share of population below the poverty line (NSS 1955) in Uttar Pradesh was 64%, not too different from that in the Madras State (present-day Tamil Nadu), at 73.6%, or in West Bengal, at 53.6%. Four decades later, in 1993-94, while India’s poverty rate was 45.3%, UP’s was...

-Down to Earth The COVID-19 pandemic prevented a full and balanced recovery of labour markets in 2021 Global unemployment is projected to stand at 207 million in 2022. This is 21 million more than in 2019 before the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic began, according to the ILO World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2022. Global working hours in 2022 will be almost two per cent below their pre-pandemic level — that...

-Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated January 4, 2022 We note with concern, that governments are considering or planning school closure as Covid cases are on the rise. Delhi, Goa and Haryana governments have ordered school closure. Karnataka TAC has recommended a TPR of 2 percent to close schools and colleges. This will spell a disaster for children. Schools have recently opened after remaining mostly closed since...

-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) Given that one of the biggest casualties of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have been the loss of jobs and livelihood, this paper examines what the impact has been on the socially disadvantaged groups such as Dalits and Adivasis. It then analyses the Union Government's policy response and attempts to understand whether these measures were adequate to ameliorate the livelihood crisis. Please click here...

-NDTV.com Over 32 lakh are registered as unemployed in Madhya Pradesh even though around 1 lakh government jobs are lying vacant. Bhopal: Fifteen job openings for peons, drivers and watchmen in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior saw nearly 11,000 unemployed young men flock to the city on Saturday and Sunday not just from within the state but also neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Although the jobs needed candidates who had cleared the 10th-grade exams, applicants included graduates,...