-The Telegraph In India, inequality has been normalised While we know that inequality is bad, we do not deal with it. In India, we have normalized it, just like brazen communalization, bigotry and untruth. This is perhaps because many of us are complicit in perpetuating the inequality. Some data released this month provide a grim commentary on what is happening in the underbelly of the country. Scan through the regional dailies and you...
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West Bengal top among large states in Foundational Literacy Index and Numeracy
-The Telegraph The index includes 5 pillars comprising 41 indicators on the basis of which the states have been ranked for literacy among children. * The Index is aimed at understanding the overall state of foundational learning across children aged below 10 years in India * Chief minister Mamata Banerjee congratulates all teachers, guardians and members of the education department West Bengal has topped the ‘large states’ category in the Index on Foundational Literacy...
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-न्यूजक्लिक, शनिवार की दोपहर का वक़्त है और 23 वर्षीय राजीव पटेल उत्तर प्रदेश के चित्रकूट जिले से चंडीगढ़ जाने के लिए रेलवे आरक्षण हासिल करने की कोशिश में व्यस्त हैं. बांदा-चित्रकूट के पाठा क्षेत्र के निवासी पटेल पिछले सात वर्षों से चंडीगढ़ और पंजाब और हरियाणा के अन्य शहरों में रसोइए के रूप में काम कर रहे हैं। उनके पास कोई औपचारिक प्रशिक्षण नहीं है फिर भी रोज़गार की तलाश में...
More »Three economic fault lines will determine India’s trajectory over the next decade -Deepanshu Mohan
-Scroll.in It is essential for policy makers to understand the crises created by widening income inequalities and labour market ruptures. In the context of the current global macro-economic situation, there are three deep currents for the Indian government to be aware of. How it understands and responds to these challenges will shape the country’s socio-economic trajectory over the next few years. The first undercurrent: the deepening of income and wealth inequalities. Second: a...
More »The WTO’s challenge to MSP is another frontier to cross -Prabhash Ranjan
-The Hindu The need is to convince farmers of other effective policy interventions that are World Trade Organization compatible The demand of farmers to provide a legal guarantee for the minimum support price (MSP) for their produce has triggered a nationwide debate. Some believe it would be “fiscally ruinous” to procure all the 23 crops for which MSP is announced annually. Others contend that procuring these crops would be a logistical nightmare....
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