-TheWire.in A recent CAG report paints a sobering picture of the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board's performance. A recently tabled Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has raised critical questions over the functioning of the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board. Let’s start with the most startling revelation. According to the national auditor, the welfare board, which comes under the Delhi government’s labour department, spent a MEAgre Rs...
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Wholesale price inflation eases to 15.18% in June but stays in double digits, 15 months on
-Moneycontrol.com Food inflation rose to 12.41 percent in June from 10.89 percent, with the food index rising 1.3 percent month-on-month India's inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) declined to 15.18 percent in June, according to data released by the commerce ministry on July 14. The WPI inflation was 15.88 percent in May, the highest in at least three decades. In June 2021, it stood at 12.07 percent. Another month of double-digit wholesale...
More »Does India have enough rice for welfare schemes and ethanol? What the govt is missing -Siraj Hussain
-ThePrint.in Procurement of rice stocks has seen a significant increase. But India is seeing deficient rains and increase of ethanol distilleries. The Narendra Modi government’s move to ban wheat export was followed by several other MEAsures to conserve stocks, which were projected to deplete in 2022-23 on account of lower procurement in the central pool, continuation of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana up to September, and the possibility 5 million tonnes...
More »A NITI Aayog-Commissioned Report Unveils the Hypocrisy of Modi Govt's 'Climate Concerns' -Anirban Bhattacharya
-TheWire.in The report seems to only focus on guilt tripping the judiciary by mechanistically enumerating immediate economic losses owing to the stalling and closures effected by rulings. It is symptomatic of the urge of the government to put profit over people. “Connecting with nature MEAns to connect with ourselves,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address on World Environment Day, 2017. At the world stage we heard him lecturing how “today’s need...
More »NEP Position Paper to Schools: MEAt and Eggs Are Bad for Health and Nation -Megha
-TheWire.in * A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020 advances a misguided idea of nutrition couched in the language of nationalism. * The paper recommends that MEAt and eggs be removed from midday MEAls and from children’s lessons, but on unscientific grounds and through statements devoid of evidence. * The paper also uses conflates wildly different – and potentially dangerous – terms like “gene-diet interactions”,...
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