-The Indian Express India’s citizenry is well and truly into a battle for constitutional values, which must be fought, most of all, with non-violent determination and vigour. In the historical scale of rioting, where do the recent Delhi riots belong? And what is their larger political significance? The first question is statistical. During early to mid-1990s, Steven Wilkinson, now teaching at Yale, and I, set up a database for all recorded Hindu-Muslim riots...
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India's GDP story gets topsy turvy with revisions in past data -Sushant Hede
-TheWire.in Significant downward revision in GDP growth during Q1 and Q2 of FY19 has been one of the key reasons for boosting GDP growth in the corresponding quarters of FY'20. India’s gross domestic product (GDP) estimation by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has been a story of upward and downward revisions in the last year. While the GDP for Q3-FY’20 is estimated at 4.7%, its slowest pace in almost seven years, what is...
More »Government data shows fall in job creation by schemes -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Some of the flagship employment generation and placement schemes, such as the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) and Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission, are expected to see a sharp decline in job creation during the current fiscal, according to data tabled in Parliament. Details provided by the labour & employment ministry states that the number of jobs generated under PMEGP plummeted from 5.87 lakh...
More »MHA stops sharing data on Communal Incidents which it did till 2017 -Bharath Kancharla
-Factly.in Debate on communal riots is a constant in public discourse these days. While NCRB provides data on riots with a ‘communal/religious’ reasons, the Home Ministry which provided data on communal incidents till 2017 has now stopped providing such data. Over the past few years, communal incidents and riots have been constant in public discourse. data provided by law enforcement authorities does indicate a substantial number of communal incidents every year across...
More »NSO will not release report showing first decline in consumer expenditure in 40 years -Somesh Jha
-TheWire.in Consumer spending surveys help set the base year for key macroeconomic data, including gross domestic product. New Delhi: More than a month after National Statistical Commission (NSC) chairman Bimal Kumar Roy said the official survey report showing a dip in consumer spending for the first time in over four decades would be made public, the autonomous data body decided against releasing the report. When asked why the NSC departed from its earlier...
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