-The Times of India What do Delhi's working women do? While the image of a working Delhi woman that comes to mind for many is usually that of a BPO or IT worker, the real employment growth story for Delhi's women could be a far less glamorous one — paid domestic work. For one, not a lot of Delhi's women do any paid work, at least of the sort that current surveys...
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58 pvt schools should refund fees: Panel
-PTI A Delhi High Court-appointed panel has recommended that 58 unaided private schools in the national capital refund "unjustly" hiked fees to parents. "The committee has recommended refund of fee unjustly hiked by 58 schools. Among them are 11 schools, where the committee, besides recommending the refund, has also recommended special inspection to be carried out by the Directorate of Education (DoE)," the three-member panel headed by former Rajasthan High Court Chief...
More »When their dreams of studying in a ‘big’ school came crashing -Tanu Kulkarni
-The Hindu Scarce RTE quota seats in private schools disappoint parents Bangalore: Arun Kumar (name changed), an electrician who earns just a little over Rs. 3,000 a month , is thinking of raising a loan to put his six-year-old son in a private school. This is thanks to the big hopes he pinned on one provision of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, which has now...
More »The feeding frenzy of kleptocracy-P Sainath
-The Hindu Since 2005-06, taxes and duties for the corporate world and the rich have been written off at the rate of Rs.7 million a minute on average. Duties waived on gold and diamonds in the last 36 months equal the 2G scam amount Forbes has just added an “errata” to Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s budget speech. The Minister had found a mere 42,800 people in the country with a taxable...
More »UN report belies India's claims of inclusive growth-Devjyot Ghoshal
-The Business Standard This has meant the GNI per capita has more than doubled from $1,229 in 1990 In recent years, India's growth has undoubtedly been spectacular. Income growth a year has averaged about five per cent from 1990 through 2012. This has meant the gross national income (GNI) per capita (purchasing power parity, in dollar terms) has more than doubled from $1,229 in 1990. However, even if one discounts the drop in...
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