-Press release by Freedom from Bondage movement dated 6 September, 2022 New Delhi: As we mark #75thIndependenceDay & #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav, thousands of people who have been evicted from their homes in slums, Jhuggies, settlement colonies and informal sector workers who have been denied their livelihood without any rehabilitation have gathered at Jantar Mantar to raise their voice against the “Bulldozer Raj”. The government is forcibly snatching the land of poor Dalits and...
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An economist proposes ways for India to revive its economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic -Jayati Ghosh
-Scroll.in An excerpt from ‘The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic in India,’ by Jayati Ghosh. There was much that was wrong with the Indian economy, society, and polity before the pandemic struck; and this book has suggested that much more has gone wrong since. It is easy to feel horror at the inequalities exposed and accentuated by governmental and societal responses to the pandemic, despair...
More »Urban jobless rate in 7 states, J&K acutely high -Surya Sarathi Ray
-Financial Express Pan-India unemployment down since the second wave of Covid-19. Even as there has been a steady decline in urban unemployment since the highly infective second Covid wave, joblessness in seven states of Rajasthan, Bihar, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh, besides Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, remained at very high levels, as per the periodic labour force survey (PLFS) data. These states, where unemployment has consistently been higher than...
More »Maharashtra, Andhra, Gujarat top states in implementing Poshan Abhiyaan scheme: NITI Aayog report
-PTI/ The New Indian Express The report titled 'Preserving Progress on Nutrition in India: Poshan Abhiyan in pandemic Times' further said that 12 out of 19 large states had an implementation score of over 70 per cent. NEW DELHI: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat have been ranked as the top three states among larger states in terms of the overall implementation of the Centre's flagship Poshan Abhiyaan, according to a Niti Aayog...
More »India’s urban unemployment rate improves across genders, age groups to best-ever level: Survey -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times The quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey also suggests that at least some of this improvement is because of a higher than usual engagement in poor quality jobs in the quarter ending June 2022 New Delhi: After recovering to pre-pandemic levels in the quarter ending March 2022, India’s urban unemployment rate improved across genders and age groups to its best-ever level in the quarter ending June 2022, according...
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