-Press release by Food and Land Use Coalition dated 10 January 2020 India can ensure healthy diets for its growing population, improve livelihoods and plug waste by adopting better food and land use practices New Delhi, January 10, 2020 – With a population projected to reach 1.5 billion people by 2030, and climate risks threatening food security, livelihoods, water supply and human health, India needs to urgently shift to sustainable food...
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Universal basic income can boost consumption instead of I-T cut: Arvind Subramanian -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com * 'If you want to boost consumption, it has to be a direct benefits transfer or a universal basic income, not a personal income tax cut,' the former CEA said in New Delhi * Subramanian said that India has infused quite a bit of capital into Stressed state-run banks and any further capital infusion should be linked to reforms New Delhi: A universal basic income, rather than a cut in the tax...
More »Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the CAB/CAA 2019 -Sanchita Kadam
-Centre for Justice and Peace Untangling the complexities of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 * What is Citizenship Amendment Act? It is an Act that proposes that all Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014 without any valid travel documents such as passport, will be granted citizenship by naturalization on applying for the same,...
More »Acute shortage of labour to extend Maharashtra's sugar season -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express The start of the sugarcane season in Maharashtra is marked by the seasonal migration of around 7-8 lakh labourers from Marathwada and North Maharashtra to the mills in various parts of the state. Pune: Maharashtra’s sugarcane crushing is all set to extend by at least a fortnight as mills complain of acute shortage of harvesting labourers. Mills say that at present around 15-20 per cent less labourers have turned...
More »Serious questions confront policymakers. Yet data are not reliable enough for them to be answered -Arvind Subramanian & Josh Felman
-The Indian Express Running an economy, especially one that is in a predicament such as India’s today, is infinitely more complicated and the data demands are hence commensurately greater. A Data Big Bang effort along the lines proposed here would make that difficult task less challenging. As the government responds to the challenges posed by the economic slowdown, there’s an ignored area of reform, where simple measures could have potentially big payoffs....
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