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Kerala and Tamil Nadu bucked the trend of falling Total Fertility Rate, indicates the latest NFHS data
After the release of the second phase data of the National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (NFHS-5), media commentators and experts have written that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has gone down just below the replacement-level fertility. The TFR for the entire nation was 2.2 in 2015-16, which decreased to 2.0 in 2019-21. According to the United Nations, the replacement-level fertility is reached when the TFR of a...
More »As migrant workers return to work, domestic remittances rise -Surabhi
-The Hindu Business Line The trend signals normalisation of economic activities to pre-Covid levels With economic activities reverting to normal on most fronts, domestic remittances by migrant workers, too, has touched pre-Covid level and in fact is even higher, according to payment players. “Things have got back to normal, we see a lot of activity in the market. People have gone back to Jobs and continue to send money. That market continues to...
More »How MGNREGS is Gradually Being Choked of Funds -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The Narendra Modi government has carried the practice of making low budgetary allocations for MGNREGS to its limit. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGS was introduced by the United Progressive Alliance-I government despite opposition from the neo-liberal lobby within it, owing inter alia to the active intervention of the Left, which was supporting that government from outside. The scheme was restrictive from the beginning: it promised a maximum...
More »Share of salaried Jobs saw worst fall in March qtr since June 2018 -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times The headline unemployment rate in the March 2021 quarter was 9.4%. This is the lowest since the quarter ending June 2020, which coincided with the 68-day long nation-wide lockdown which was imposed on March 25, 2020. Could the Covid-19 pandemic have left long-term scars on India’s labour markets? The findings of the January-March round of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), released on November 30, by the National Statistical Office...
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