-The Telegraph Edutech is the white flour and refined sugar of learning The economic downturn caused by Covid-19 was the making of one class of business: the edutech industry. The closedown of schools created a need to teach students remotely. The electronic mode was the only possible MEAns. But the way it was adopted prompts deep misgivings. I am actively involved with computer applications in teaching and research. The promise held out by...
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Central government plans to scrap wheat import duty -R Suryamurthy
-The Telegraph Officials say Centre is considering several other MEAsures such as doing away with stock holding limit of foodgrain The government plans to scrap the import duty on wheat to encourage inward shipment and meet its growing demand during the festive season. Officials said the Centre was considering several other MEAsures such as doing away with the stock holding limit of the foodgrain. Analysts said the move might not fetch the desired results...
More »‘Gap’ in Jharkhand ration claim and reality -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph The activists flagged a reply by the Jharkhand food, and civil supplies department during the monsoon session about payment of food security allowances Jamshedpur: Food security activists in Jharkhand are pained at the difference between the government's claim in the state Assembly on the implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and stark realities at the ground level. The activists have flagged a reply by the Jharkhand food, and civil...
More »Prices of Food Items Rising Unchecked… -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in …while the government continues to remain clueless. By the end of June, wheat and flour prices were on fire with an incredible 10% inflation rate, according to the latest data available with the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI). That MEAns prices were 10% higher than in June last year. Just six months ago, in January, the inflation rate for wheat was 5.1%—uncomfortable but not yet lethal. This devastating rise...
More »Reconceptualising Women’s Work in the the National Sample Survey -Santosh Mehrotra
-The India Forum A good approach to build a new framework for MEAsuring women’s work better is for the National Statistical Office to accept the definitions and categories recommended in 2013 by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians. The female labour force participation rate of women (LFPR) in India is one of the lowest in the world, and falling. It is even lower than that in neighbouring countries. The reasons for...
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