-Livemint.com This is the fourth report in the PLFS data series and offers information on both employment and unemployment for rural as well as urban areas. Earlier this week, India’s ministry of statistics and programme implementation released the annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the reference period July 2020 to June 2021. This is the fourth report in the PLFS data series and offers information on both employment...
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To bridge the urban-rural divide, India should accelerate economy’s structural transformation -Kalaiyarasan A
-Scroll.in The demand for equitable access to quality education and healthcare should complement agriculture reforms in the country. It has been more than six months since the Samyukt Kisan Morcha – the umbrella organisation representing protesting Indian farmers – ended its 15-month-long agitation at Delhi’s borders against the three farm laws. Some of their demands were met, while their demand for a Minimum Support Price guarantee remains unfulfilled. These developments do little to...
More »Do We Know What has Happened to Poverty since 2011-12? -Himanshu
-The India Forum The government's lack of respect for national surveys on consumption has meant that the door has been opened to preparation of unofficial estimates on poverty made on questionable assumptions. Two such recent estimates highlight the need to resume collection of data to get a true picture of poverty The government of India does not seem to be interested in knowing how many poor there are in the country. The missing...
More »India better placed to avoid risk of stagflation: RBI officials
-The Hindu Domestic economic activity is gaining strength, write authors of Bulletin article India’s economy is better placed than many other countries to avoid the risk of potential stagflation, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials headed by Deputy Governor Michael D. Patra wrote in an article in the June edition of the RBI Bulletin. “Global economic conditions continued to deteriorate as ratcheting up of commodity prices and financial market volatility have led to...
More »News watchdog slams ‘media trial’ of Umar Khalid, orders Zee, India TV, Aaj Tak to remove videos -Anupriya Chatterjee
-ThePrint.in Zee News, Zee Hindustan, India TV & Aaj Tak ‘violated principles of impartiality, objectivity’ in five 2020 telecasts, News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has said New Delhi: Criticising the “media trial” of Delhi riots-accused Umar Khalid and noting its “serious objection to sensationalist taglines and tickers”, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has ordered news channels Zee News, Zee Hindustan, India TV, and Aaj Tak to remove all...
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