-Press statement by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated June 2, 2022 We strongly urge the Government of Karnataka to: 1. Revoke the recent revisions to the textbooks, which are regressive in nature, and have been done in an arbitrary manner, without adherence to well-defined curriculum framework and processes. 2. Print and supply the textbooks which have been in use for many years, post the last revision. 3. Focus energies on...
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Don't make Punjab a junkyard for machines -Devinder Sharma
-The Tribune With policy-backing, subsidies and availability of easy credit, farmers are being pushed to buy more machines. Punjab has five times more tractors than required. As more technological gadgets and machines are promoted, farmers are increasingly sucked into a debt cycle, while equipment manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank. At a time when farmers across the world are struggling to recover their cost of production, an Oxfam report...
More »India's GDP growth further slows to 4.1 per cent in fourth quarter
-The Telegraph Downward revision was expected as omicron variant and start of Russia-Ukraine war hit Q4: Economist New Delhi: Growth in the fourth quarter of 2021-22 (January-March) slowed to a crawl at 4.1 per cent, reflecting just how enfeebled the economy had become because of weakening demand and a broad-based surge in prices that sent inflation to an eight-year high at 7.79 per cent in April. The slowdown meant that the fourth quarter...
More »Around 31 mn households demand work under MGNREGA in May, up 11% YoY -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard The figure is also much higher than the corresponding pre-Covid period, data shows Around 31 million households have demanded work under the flagship MGNREGA in the month of May this year, which is almost 11 per cent more than the same period last year and much higher than the corresponding pre-Covid period, data sourced from the website showed today. In April 2022, around 23.26 million households have sought work under the...
More »Forget minimum wages, MGNREGA workers not even receiving notified wages in many states
Every year in the month of either February or March, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announces the notified MGNREGA wage rates (i.e., notified daily wage rates for MGNREGA workers) for various states and Union Territories (UTs) for the upcoming financial year. The MGNREGA rates are notified every year based on the increase in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). Like the previous years, in 2021 too, experts and civil...
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