-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 27 January, 2020 As the Indian economy continues to languish, the government ignores the advice given by several noted economists, including that of the most recent Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee, to improve the functioning of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The economy is facing blow after blow. India has the highest rates of unemployment in the past 45 years and food inflation...
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Migrant Workers herded to three centres in Kodagu for ID check
-The New Indian Express Thousands of migrant Workers, mostly employed in coffee estates across Kodagu, were taken to three centres in the district on Thursday as police carried out an identity verification exercise. MADIKERI: Thousands of migrant Workers, mostly employed in coffee estates across Kodagu, were taken to three centres in the district on Thursday as police carried out an identity verification exercise. The centres in Madikeri, Virajpet and Kushalnagar towns were...
More »From Jan Breman, a Treasure Trove of Essential Analysis on Labour, Bondage and Capitalism -Jayati Ghosh
-TheWire.in Breman's central finding about the close coexistence of capitalism and labour bondage contains remarkable nuggets of hope for transcendence. For more than half a century, Jan Breman has diligently, insightfully and creatively studied the life of labour in India, and specifically in Gujarat. His searing descriptions and acute analyses based on painstaking fieldWork and a broad but clear theoretical frameWork have informed our understanding of the conditions of rural – and urban...
More »867,964 people joined formal Workforce in November, shows payroll data -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint.com * The number was better than October when 686,158 people joined the formal Work but less than any other months in the current financial year * In July it was 1.2 million, and in June it was 1.18 million, in May it was 1.01 million and in April it stood at 1.06 million NEW DELHI: At least 867,964 new people joined the formal Workforce in November 2019, an improvement from the month...
More »Why India faces a public funding crisis -Rathin Roy & Puja Mehra
-Livemint.com * The Centre has no money for a stimulus package. Only the states can find a way to get India out of the slowdown * States, taken collectively, are the only hope. Despite loan waivers, they are in a better position to boost public spending. But that would require coordinated Work between the Centre?and the states NEW DELHI: On 1 February, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present an important Union budget. The...
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