-Down to Earth Delayed wages due to a lack of funds has eroded the confidence of job seekers in MGNREGA; This has driven down demand for work under the scheme this season Delayed wages due to a lack of funds has eroded the confidence of job seekers in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). This has driven down demand for work under the scheme this season, experts have told...
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How the Pandemic Exacerbated Identity-Based Discrimination in India's Labour Market -Siddharth Ganguly
-TheWire.in While employment was hit harder in urban areas due to the extent of disruption to urban business by the national lockdowns, rural India saw a more unequal distribution of these effects due to high discrimination. In the first article in this two-part series, we looked at the findings on discrimination in India’s labour market detailed in Oxfam’s India Discrimination Report 2022. While that article detailed the extent of discrimination faced by Muslims,...
More »Lumpy skin disease virus different from 2019 version -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Finding raises questions about efficacy of the new vaccine The lumpy skin disease (LSD) virus that has killed at least 50,000 cattle in India this year maybe structurally different from the version of the virus prevalent in India in 2019, raising questions on whether the new vaccine being developed for safeguarding cattle may be adequately protective. Scientists at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)...
More »Election commissioner's seat vacant for four months -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph Former CEC Sushil Chandra retired on May 14 this year, handing over charge to Rajiv Kumar The post of the third election commissioner has been vacant for the last four months. While this is not unprecedented, former heads of the poll panel said a delay makes the Election Commission of India vulnerable to a potential deadlock. Former chief election commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra retired on May 14 this year, handing over...
More »The ban on the export of broken rice -Saptaparno Ghosh
-The Hindu How is the ethanol blending programme connected to the rice export ban? The story so far: On September 9, the Centre instituted a ban on the export of broken rice. Additionally, it mandated an export duty of 20% on rice in husk (paddy or rough), husked (brown rice) and semi-milled or wholly-milled rice. The measures do not affect export of basmati or parboiled rice. The Secretary at the Department of...
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