-Economic and Political Weekly The runaway growth in states of subsidised solar pumps, which provide quality energy at near-zero marginal cost, can pose a bigger threat of groundwater over-exploitation than free power has done so far. The best way to meet this threat is by paying farmers to "grow" solar power as a remunerative cash crop. Doing so can reduce pressure on aquifers, cut the subsidy burden on electricity companies, reduce...
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Biggest caste survey: One in four Indians admit to practising untouchability -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express Sixty-four years after caste untouchability was abolished by the Constitution, more than a fourth of Indians say they continue to practise it in some form in their homes, the biggest ever survey of its kind has revealed. Those who admit to practising untouchability belong to virtually every religious and caste group, including Muslims, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Going by respondents' admissions, untouchability is the most widespread among Brahmins, followed...
More »Labour Amendment Bill Gets Clearance
-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: Taking a step towards initiating labour reforms, the BJP Government on Friday managed to get the Labour Amendment Bill passed in the Lok Sabha, thus paving a way for it to become a law. The Bill has already been passed by the Upper House. The Labour Law (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by certain Establishments) Amendment Bill, 2011, was passed in the Lok Sabha...
More »Chaiti Bai’s story and modern India -Krishna Kumar
-The Hindu The deaths of Chaiti Bai and other women after a botched tubectomy in Chhattisgarh are an opportunity to reflect on the problems India faces in the pursuit of modernity and global status, especially in health and education A sudden death always has great pedagogical value. The death of Chaiti Bai, a Baiga tribal woman, following a botched tubectomy at a mass sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh recently, can improve our perspective...
More »Women on the Edge of Land and Life -Manipadma Jena
-IPS News SUNDARBANS: November is the cruelest month for landless families in the Indian Sundarbans, the largest single block of tidal mangrove forest in the world lying primarily in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. There is little agricultural wage-work to be found, and the village moneylender's loan remains unpaid, its Interest mounting. The paddy harvest is a month away, pushing rice prices to an annual high. For those like Namita Bera,...
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