-The Indian Express The realities of torture and its prosecution in India would temper our expectations from this one development. The Supreme Court needs to ensure robust implementation of its order and simultaneously plug the GAPs so that incidents of torture are curtailed. In a bid to curb torture, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently mandated that CCTV cameras be installed in police stations and offices of other investigative agencies....
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The pandemic will leave India with worse inequality -Rahul Jacob
-Livemint.com A failure to protect incomes could widen the GAP between have-nots and haves and thus hurt growth When the facts change, I change my mind," John Maynard Keynes is believed to have said almost a century ago. Responding to the economic after-shocks of the covid pandemic, governments and central banks have been living by this maxim. In the UK and US, supposedly fiscally conservative governments have spent with abandon to prop...
More »GST compensation shortfall: Govt releases ₹6,000 crore to 23 States, 3 UTs
-Livemint.com The amount released this week was the 6th installment of such funds provided to the States The Finance Ministry has released the weekly installment of ₹6,000 crore to the States to meet the GST compensation shortfall on Wednesday. Out of this, an amount of ₹5,516.60 crore has been released to 23 States and an amount of ₹483.40 crore has been released to the 3 Union Territories with Legislative Assembly (Delhi, Jammu &...
More »Bengal, Kerala agree to Centre's GST borrowing formula
-The Telegraph Three states — Punjab, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh — have not accepted the proposals yet Bengal and Kerala have dropped their opposition to the Centre’s borrowing option to bridge the GAP in the Goods and Services Tax revenue receipts. The two states have opted for the limited borrowing option under which the Centre will borrow funds and pass them on to the states but the debt will be recognised in the balance...
More »The ‘Time Use Survey’ as an opportunity lost -Indira Hirway
-The Hindu GAPs in the Indian version’s data will impact Sustainable Development Goal 5.4 and the ILO’s resolution on defining work The all India Time Use Survey, 2019 has just been published by the Government of India. As a survey that has covered the entire country for the first time, the National Statistical Office needs to be complimented for accomplishing the task. The “Time Use Survey, or TUS, provides a framework for measuring...
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