-Hindustan Times&NBSp; THE BIG STORY: How five Adivasi women and a Gandhian activist scored a huge win for anganwadi workers After 21 years of service when Maniben Maganbhai Bhariya, an Adivasi women working as an anganwadi helper in district Dahod, Gujarat, retired on February 20, 2006 she was drawing a salary of Rs 1,250 a month. Based on this, Maniben was entitled to a one-time gratuity of Rs 14,423. Seven years later when...
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States vs Centre: Which govt. increased the fuel tax rate? -Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu What is the Opposition-ruled States’ stand on reduction of value added tax to bring down petrol prices?&NBSp; The story so far: Petrol is retailing at more than ₹100 per litre across India. While rising crude oil prices have added to the burden, the primary reason behind the steep increase in pump fuel prices over the last few years is the gradually rising Central Government's excise duty component. Currently, for every...
More »Poor Economics: Has India’s poverty really fallen? -Santosh Mehrotra & Jajati Parida
-Financial Express Dataset and methodological weaknesses cast doubt on recent poverty estimates that claim drastic reduction Bhalla, Bhasin and Virmani in a working paper (IMF), claimed India’s poverty, per a $1.9 per person per day poverty line (at PPP), was 0.9% of the population in 2020. Thanks to government transfer of free rations of 5 kg per person month, it fell to 0.8% (from 0.9% in 2019). Roy and de Velt, for...
More »Untangling the Labyrinth of Health Inequities in India -Indranil Mukhopadhyay
-Economic and Political Weekly Please click here to access the review of the book 'Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India', edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani, India: OUP, 2019; pp xiv + 418, Rs.1,195 (hardcover). The book review has been done by Dr. Indranil Mukhopadhyay,&NBSp;OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat.&NBSp;&NBSp; Kindly click here to read more.&NBSp; ...
More »Delhi, Punjab, UP among states hit by coal shortage, power outages likely -- Top points
-Hindustan Times In view of the shortage of coal, a dominant fuel used to generate electricity in the country, the government halted hundreds of passenger trains. Meanwhile, state-run Coal India ramped up coal production by 27.2% in April. Several states across the country reeled under long power cuts, as hotter-than-normal temperatures pushed the electricity demand, triggering a major power crisis. According to a report by Reuters, electricity supply fell short of demand...
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