-Business StaNDArd Exemptions granted on agri income and subsidies provided by the Centre and states are being cornered by big farmers and corporates The Comptroller and auditor general’s proposed audit of exemptions granted to big corporates, companies and even farmers under the head of agriculture incomes has once again rekindled the debate as to whether farm incomes derived from big companies and large farmers should be taxed. According to an analysis done by...
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Kerala Leads in Female Literacy, While Tamil Nadu Has Most Women Entrepreneurs -Prachi Salve
-TheWire.in/ IndiaSpend.org But female participation in India’s workforce has declined from 34% in 1999 to 27% in 2014, making it the worst rate among BRICS nations. The five states with the largest proportion of literate women &NDAsh; Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra &NDAsh; account for 53% (4.3 million) of all business establishments owned by women nationwide, although no more than 33% of India’s women live in these states,...
More »Indian towns fare poorly on basic infra, socio-economic indicators -Moushumi Das Gupta
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: A first of its kind study on the state of India’s small towns &NDAsh; those with a population of less than one lakh &NDAsh; has come up with a grim picture of these mushrooming urban settlements. Though the numbers of such towns have grown by 157 % -- from 2223 in 1961 to 5705 in 2011, they have “enormous backlogs” when it comes to basic infrastructure and socio-economic...
More »What numbers tell us about Open Defecation in India -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu As per the most recent Swachhta Status Report in 2015, more than half of the rural population (52.1 per cent) of the country still defecates in open. Eliminating Open Defecation in India by 2nd October 2019 &NDAsh; the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi &NDAsh; is one of the key aims of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan movement launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi two years ago on Gandhi Jayanti. As per...
More »No country for a child -Preeti Mehra
-The Hindu Business Line By allowing children to work in family enterprises, amendments to the Child Labour Act have made them more vulnerable to exploitation. Tracking the issue will be more difficult, writes Preeti Mehra When the two houses of Parliament put their stamp on a few amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 a couple of months ago, they also signed away the dignity of children and the...
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