-Livemint.com * Data cards will be given to them from January to APRIl 2021 free of cost, state said * The scheme will benefit students enrolled in govt and government-aided arts and science colleges, polytechnic, engineering colleges and scholarship-funded PRIvate colleges from January-APRIl, 2021 In order to enable students to attend online classes, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday announced data scheme for nearly 10 lakh students in school and even colleges as well...
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Why experts aren’t buying Centre’s argument against MSP for crops -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express Along with cancellation of the three farm laws, making MSP legal for all crops is another major demand of the farmers protesting at the Delhi border. Jalandhar: While the Centre has been claiming that making Minimum Support PRIce (MSP) legal for all crops will put a burden of Rs 17 lakh crore on the government exchequer annually, there are economists and experts who are not buying this argument. The MSP...
More »The post-Covid PRIority: Budget needs to ramp up spending on health and education -S Mahendra Dev
-The Indian Express Budget needs to ramp up spending on health and education. Pandemic has enhanced inequalities, shown up absence of safety nets. India is committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, and social sector development is important in reaching them. Progress in this sector has intrinsic (for its own sake) and instrumental (for higher growth) value. It is needed even to build a $5 trillion economy faster. Inequalities...
More »Improving diet of low-income households only way to address chronic malnutrition -Veena S Rao
-The Indian Express Raising the diet of our people from subsistence level to higher levels of nourishment by overcoming the triple deficit is the only way to improve the nutritional indicators of our population — amongst children, adolescents and adults. It is nearly a month since the first phase of the NFHS-5 survey was published. While we await a response from the government or any policy-making authority, several articles by public health/policy...
More »Seven key takeaways from India’s latest GDP data -Udit Misra
-The Indian Express India’s GDP 2020-21: This year, India’s per capita GDP, per capita PRIvate consumption and the level of investments in the economy — all will fall to levels last seen in 2016-17 or earlier, reveals latest official GDP data. On Thursday, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the First Advance Estimates (FAE) for the current financial year. According to MoSPI, India’s gross domestic product (GDP) — the total...
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