-The Business Standard In 2009-10, number of days a household got employment in a year in rural areas of Rajasthan was about 38, which steadily dropped to 23 in 2012-13 Rajasthan and Karnataka, which used to be stand-out performers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)'s flagship scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), of late, are showing signs of faltering in terms of execution, raising a question mark on...
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'Include slum population in DP'
-The Indian Express Mumbai: The representatives told BMC to conduct an in-depth survey and publish a map of all slum-occupied land with the size of areas and the population there. More than a dozen social welfare groups and slum representatives demanded a more inclusive process for slums in the city's Development Plan (DP) in a public meeting with BMC Saturday. The representatives told BMC to conduct an in-depth survey and publish a map...
More »Salaam Mumbai! -Anupama Katakam
-Frontline A report by ActionAid and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences highlights the vulnerability and tragic living conditions of thousands of children who take shelter in Mumbai's streets. IN 1988, the acclaimed film-maker Mira Nair made Salaam Bombay!, a poignantly revealing film on street children in Mumbai. The plot revolves around the protagonist, Krishna or "Chaipau", who is kicked out of his home by his mother for having damaged his...
More »Poverty-Hunger Divergence in India -Deepankar Basu and Debarshi Das
-Economic and Political Weekly The usual explanations for the divergence between calorie intake and consumption expenditure in India ignore the enormous squeeze on food budgets arising from dispossession (leading to loss of access to common property resources), rising migration (involving a loss of access to non-market food items) and the forced turn to the private sector for social sector services that are more expensive than public sector provision. It is the...
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-Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre (PMARC) Please click here to access the interim observation and recommendation of Jury Panel of the Independent People’s Tribunal on the Functioning of the National Human Rights Commission of India. The event took place in School of Social Sciences-1 Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University on 14th, 15th& 16th December 2013. ...
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