The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...
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Only 8% of minority students attend schools for minority communities, NCPCR report says -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in NCPCR report, which analyses data from 23,487 minority schools across the country, says a little over 37% of total students in minority schools belong to these communities. New Delhi: Only 8 per cent of a total 4,81,91,351 children from minority communities, aged between 5 and 15, attend schools for minority communities, a report by the National Council for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has found. Furthermore, just over 37 per cent (38,44,074)...
More »Major landslide in Himachal's Kinnaur, more than 40 feared buried
-Hindustan Times The Indo-Tibetan border police (ITBP) said that the INCident occurred at around 12:45pm on the Reckong Peo-Shimla highway in the Kinnaur district. A major landslide was reported from the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. The INCident is feared to have buried more than 40 people under the debris, according to news agencies. Citing deputy commissioner Abid Hussain Sadiq, PTI reported that several vehicles, INCluding a Himachal Road Transport...
More »Parties get 48 hours to publish candidates’ criminal records -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Supreme Court modifies February 2020 judgment; imposes fines on major political parties, INCluding the BJP and the Congress. The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned Parliament that the nation is losing patience with the advent of criminals in politics even as it imposed fines on major political parties, INCluding the BJP and Congress, for covering up from voters the criminal past of the candidates they had fielded in the Bihar Assembly...
More »Study Reveals Covid-Led Job Loss is Forcing People to Beg on the Streets of Delhi: Report
-News18.com Those forced to take up begging due to loss of work during the pandemic INClude women involved in domestic work, temporary workers in hotels, poverty unemployment. The latest study by Institute for Human Development (IHD) between February and April this year, by the Delhi government has revealed that more than half of those surveyed (52 per cent) are “new entrants” who have taken up begging during the past five years and...
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