-ThePrint.in Study by Azim Premji University finds that graduates currently make up over one-third of India’s unemployed population. New delhi: Graduates and postgraduates are the least likely to find jobs in the country as compared to those without any degrees, according to a study released by the Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment. The study, which states that unemployment among young and highly educated Indians is the highest in 20 years, has...
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'When a brother goes down a sewer to clean it, we look the other way' -Sudha G Tilak
-The Hindu Business Line Hounded for her documentary on the horrors of manual scavenging, filmmaker Divya Bharathi holds up a mirror to social indifference A conspiracy of silence — that’s how filmmaker Divya Bharathi describes the uneasy quiet that shrouds the death of men and children in sewage tanks. Earlier this month, when six men choked to death in delhi, the reaction was on expected lines — nothing beyond knee-jerk moves, she...
More »In UP's sugar bowl, harvest is rich but not sweet -V Kumara Swamy
-The Telegraph With an overload of cane price arrears, V Kumara Swamy warns of a looming crisis for farmers Until a few years ago, you could tell the seasons in western Uttar Pradesh when you drove down its highways just by looking at the standing crops. In winter, one would see an unending landscape of swaying wheat and mustard, during summer it would be all sugarcane and paddy. These days, almost through the...
More »Academics question Modi's claim of autonomy -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Our PM doesn’t seem sympathetic to the autonomy of academic institutions. He seems to promote the idea of delivery first, then funds: Andre Beteille New delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday emphasised the autonomy his government had granted to higher-education institutions but several academics questioned the claim. Inaugurating a conference on education here, Modi termed the autonomy given to the IIMs “unprecedented”. Among the freedoms granted to the B-schools by the...
More »Kharif food output estimated at a record high -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com According to govt data, the output of foodgrains is 11.9 million tonnes higher than the average production of 129.7 million tonnes between 2012-17 New delhi: India’s foodgrain production during the rain-fed kharif season is estimated at a record 141.6 million tonnes in 2018-19, raising chances that wholesale crop prices will continue to hover low ahead of crucial elections in states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The first advance estimate of crop...
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