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Economic Crisis Deepens, Hate And Violence Rises -Subodh Varma

-Newsclick.in Religious bigotry and violence are meant to distract people from questioning sweeping unemployment, sky-high prices and faltering incomes. If you go by Sarkari views, India's economy is on an upward bounce after the devastation caused by the Covid pandemic. But, in reality, there is ever-widening discontent because of the inability of the government to rein in prices of essential items, its complete neglect of job creation and low incomes that are...

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Amrit Kaal: Crushed Under joblessness and Low Wages -Subodh Varma

-Newsclick.in Work participation has steadily declined, unemployment is at 7% or more and median yearly income in 2020-21 was an abysmal Rs.1.7 lakh, as per CMIE. In the past five years, the economic slowdown, pandemic and its disastrous response and the Narendra Modi government’s indifference to the common people has led to a steadily worsening economic crisis. The government, perhaps buoyed by electoral successes, has given up on reviving the living condition...

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The pandemic’s hidden cost: Suicides among Indians who lost jobs and income -Tabassum Barnagarwala

-Scroll.in India saw an unprecendented economic upheaval in the last two years. With it came a mental health crisis – and a wave of suicides. Trigger warning: This article contains references to suicide and some people might find it disturbing. In December 2020, in response to the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai decided to set up a dedicated mental-health helpline for slum residents of...

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Harsh Mander: Covid-19 has left India’s workers more powerless than ever before -Harsh Mander

-Scroll.in They are now alone in the world, hungry, jobless and with zero bargaining power and protection – and the employers know that. It was early on a rainy morning in early August 2021, when the dreaded second wave was just abating. We drove to Company Bagh, in the Walled City of Old Delhi, to check if work had revived for Delhi’s casual daily wage workers. Thousands of these workers gather every...

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Trouble for Nitish? Number of jobless youth continues to rise in Bihar -Ramashankar

-The New Indian Express A total of 2.67 lakh unemployed youth from the state have got themselves registered with the national career service portal in the last 10 months. PATNA: The list of job seekers in Bihar is getting longer day by day.  A total of 2.67 lakh unemployed youth from the state have got themselves registered with the national career service portal in the last 10 months. The number of registered jobless youth...

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