-Newsclick.in Construction, manufacturing, hospitality sectors most affected. Over 1.7 crore daily wage workers lose jobs. Over 2.5 crore existing jobs have Been lost between January and May 2021. The bulk of these losses – about 2.2 crore – have occurred in April and May, the period in which India was engulfed in a brutal second wave of COVID-19, leading to state-level lockdowns of varying degrees. These chilling figures emerge from the latest...
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Odisha’s forest produce gatherers hit hard -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu In the pandemic, there aren’t enough buyers and government procurement is delayed For the second year running, forest dwellers across Odisha have Been deprived of the right price for the Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) gathered by them. With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting local economies across the country, the NTFP market in Odisha has also suffered due to the absence of adequate buyers this year. “Last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic surfaced, forest...
More »Centre stops Delhi govt’s doorstep delivery of ration scheme -Pankaj Jain
-IndiaToday.com The central government has stopped the Kejriwal-led Delhi government’s doorstep delivery of ration scheme. It was set to be launched in a couple of days. The central government has put a stop to the Delhi government’s ambitious doorstep delivery of ration scheme, the Delhi government said on Saturday. To address the issue, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold a press conference at 11 am on Sunday. According to sources, the Delhi government’s...
More »Dr. Amit Basole, head of Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment, interviewed by Rohan Venkataramakrishnan (Scroll.in)
-Scroll.in The head of Azim Premji’s Centre for Sustainable Employment on the tremendous distress hiding beneath job market statistics in India. If you looked at just the bare employment figures for India over 2020, you might think that most people recovered from the shock of the national lockdown and the economic crisis that followed. Yet though there was indeed a recovery before the brutal second wave hit, the headline numbers paper over...
More »Save water: We need a lot of blue to stay green -Niraj Kumar and Sagarika Mishra
-The Financial Express According to a study, by 2025, agricultural productivity is likely to fall by 68 percent in more than one-third of India's districts that are currently under water stress. The covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the country’s economy has Been colossal. Nevertheless, Indian agriculture to date has resisted the onslaught. Though in the FY 2020-21, India’s GDP contracted by 7.7 percent, including negative growth in industry and services agriculture delivered a...
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