The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...
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The complex story of rising COVID-19 cases in Kerala -C Maya Abdul and Latheef Naha
-The Hindu Malappuram, the most densely populated district of Kerala, epitomises the challenges the State faces in controlling the rising number of COVID-19 infections. Abdul Latheef Naha and C. Maya explain how the State, which seemed to have a grip on the pandemic, has been faltering “Two people have died. Please come and pack the bodies,” a nurse tells the cleaning staff who are on a break. Within a few minutes, cleaning...
More »‘Digital Divide’ a Curse for Jharkhand’s Tribal Children as They Forget Past Learnings -Saurav Kumar
-Newsclick.in As schools remain closed, poor tribal villagers cannot afford smartphones and computers to aid their children’s online education, leaving this young population facing a precarious future. “I wish doors of the primary school are unlocked for our children after being closed for 16 months and if it does not happen the younger generation will permanently fall out of the education system,” says Dhaneshwari Devi of Dumbi village in Latehar district of...
More »Food delivery workers tell their story on Twitter, say it's a losing game
-TheNewsMinute.com The delivery executives behind the anonymous Twitter handle tell TNM that they deliver more food, travel more but earn less than ever before. Throughout the pandemic, even as restaurants were shuttered to diners and grocery stores closed early, food delivery executives have remained a constant, traversing cities at all hours of the day to bring meals to your doorstep. Yet, during this time, many of these executives have stood in protest...
More »Odisha seeks immediate supply of fertilisers for ongoing crop season
-The Hindu In a letter addressed to Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, CM Naveen Patnaik said the State Witnessed a severe shortage in the supply of different fertilisers during May, June and July. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has sought the immediate restoration in supply of fertilisers as its shortage is likely to badly affect Kharif crop season. In a letter addressed to Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday, Mr....
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