-NDTV "Marenge toh gaon mein hi marenge" said a determined Ramesh as he walked down a highway in Gurgaon in late March with his wife and two small children. The family had just set off for their village, 450 km away in Madhya Pradesh because they did not think they would survive a 21-day lockdown with no source of income. 45 days, two extensions, a disposed-of petition on wage payment for...
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National infant mortality RATe at 32, Madhya Pradesh worst performer -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express According to the data released by the Registrar General of India, the national birth RATe in 2018 stood at 20, and death and infant mortality RATes stood at 6.2 and 32, respectively. Madhya Pradesh has the worst infant mortality RATe in the country while Nagaland has the best. Chhattisgarh has the highest death RATe, while Delhi has the lowest. Bihar continues to remain at the top of list in...
More »Slower growth and a tighter fiscal -C Rangarajan and DK Srivastava
-The Hindu India slid into the pandemic crisis in the backdrop of economic downslide; fiscal stimulus has to be structured The impact of COVID-19 will be debilitating for the global as well as the Indian economies. Various institutions have assessed India’s growth prospects for 2020-21 ranging from 0.8% (Fitch) to 4.0% (Asian Development Bank). This wide range indicates the extent of uncertainty and tentative nature of these forecasts. The International Monetary Fund...
More »COVID-19 Data in South Asia Shows India is Doing Worse than Its Neighbours -Deepankar Basu and Priyanka Srivastava
-TheWire.in In terms of the spread of the disease, Sri Lanka has the best position and India is the worst hit. Forty days into the epidemic, India has consistently recorded the highest cumulative and daily case count and highest death RATe among the four largest SAARC countries. This is the first of a three-part analysis looking at the compaRATive performance of major South Asian nations in terms of managing the public health...
More »Migrant Workmen Act, 1979, must be RATionalised to remove requirements that disincentivise formalisation -KP Krishnan, Anirudh Burman & Suyash Rai
-The Indian Express The Act was enacted to prevent the exploitation of inter-state migrant workmen by contractors, and to ensure fair and decent conditions of employment. The fallout of the lockdown in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 highlights the urgent need to RATionalise the legislative framework for labour in India. Migrant labour has been among the worst affected due to the lockdown. Their efforts to leave the cities before the...
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