India's growth story in a crisis-hit world has been globally applauded. Still, the prime minister did well not to use his Independence Day address as a mere occasion for back-patting. This isn't yet "new India" where growth's gains percolate to every citizen. Not only must structural nuts and bolts be fixed before we get there, the economic blueprint itself needs a sharper reformist orientation. To its credit, the UPA has...
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Posco questions Naveen’s 90 pc job promise to locals by Debabrata Mohanty
Posco, whose mega steel project in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district hangs in balance after Ministry of Environment and Forests issued a stop-work order last week, has now questioned the Naveen Patnaik government’s plan to reserve 90 per cent jobs in the unskilled and semi-skilled category for “local people” for all upcoming industrial projects. A High Level Clearance Authority of the state government chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently cleared a proposal...
More »Disabled quota push by Cithara Paul
For the first time, a job quota will be thrust on the private sector if the government accepts a panel’s recommendation for reservations for the disabled and turns it into law. The government-instituted committee has suggested extending to the private sector the 3 per cent reservation for the physically challenged that now exists in Government Jobs. It also wants a 5 per cent quota introduced for disabled students in private educational institutions...
More »Seven lakh bogus jobs under NREGS
The backward Hyderabad Karnatak region is proving to be a fertile ground for the bogus cards racket under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Lakhs of families are carrying the cards that make them eligible for employment although they are not qualified for benefits under the scheme. In fact, almost half the bogus cards that have been dug out under the scheme have been found in the districts here. The fraud...
More »India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor? by Jim Yardley
JHABUA, India — Inside the drab district hospital, where dogs patter down the corridors, sniffing for food, Ratan Bhuria’s children are curled together in the malnutrition ward, hovering at the edge of starvation. His daughter, Nani, is 4 and weighs 20 pounds. His son, Jogdiya, is 2 and weighs only eight. Landless and illiterate, drowned by debt, Mr. Bhuria and his ailing children have staggered into the hospital ward after falling...
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