-PTI/ Business Standard The lowering of estimates has been attributed to "early summer" The government has revised downwards the estimate for wheat production by 5.7 per cent to 105 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year ending June from the earlier projection of 111.32 million tonnes, as the crop productivity has been affected due to the early onset of summer. Addressing a press conference, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the agriculture ministry has...
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Health Stack is harder to roll out than Aadhaar: RS Sharma -Shouvik Das
-Livemint.com Aadhaar has only two parties—the government and citizens, but ABDM involves multiple entities NEW DELHI: Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), which seeks to build a technology backbone for digital health infrastructure in india, is “much more difficult" to build than Aadhaar, according to Ram Sewak Sharma, chief executive of the National Health Authority (NHA). Speaking at the Mint AI Summit 2022 held in New Delhi on 29 April, Sharma explained that while...
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-Scroll.in Reporters Without Borders reiterated its last year’s description of the country as one of the world’s most dangerous ones for the media. india’s ranking in the World Press Freedom Index fell from 142 in 2021 to 150 this year out of 180 countries, media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontières said on Tuesday. The organisation has been publishing the World Press Freedom Index since 2002. india’s rank has fallen to 150 in 2022 from...
More »Is india Facing a Post-pandemic Employment Crisis? -Murali Krishnan
-Newsclick.in india's job market is tightening, and skilled workers are finding it harder to enter the workforce. Government job drives and the informal economy have been unable to make up the difference. Pramod Lal is a 23-year-old recent business graduate from northern india, who thought he had the credentials to be competitive in the job market. However, Lal's attempts to start a career have yet to succeed. "Education is no guarantee for a...
More »Displacement and Livelihood of Industrial Workers on the Periphery of Delhi: Case Study of workers in Narela Industrial Estate -Dr. Tanya Chaudhary
-Newsclick.in The case study of Narela shows that informal workers exist in a perpetual cycle of precariousness, distress and displacement in a megacity. The case study of Narela shows that informal workers exist in a perpetual cycle of precariousness, distress and displacement in a megacity. While this cycle could be broken through interventions in the realms of social provisioning and legislative framework, the State’s policies instead seem to be working towards strengthening...
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