-Hindustan Times During the Covid pandemic-induced lockdown in early 2020, nearly 25,000 migrant workers reached Saharanpur on bicycles while heading back to their native places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from their places of work in Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Meerut: The Saharanpur district administration has auctioned 5,400 bicycles left behind by migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar while rushing home during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of...
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India's GDP growth further slows to 4.1 per cent in fourth quarter
-The Telegraph Downward revision was expected as omicron variant and start of Russia-Ukraine war hit Q4: Economist New Delhi: Growth in the fourth quarter of 2021-22 (January-March) slowed to a crawl at 4.1 per cent, reflecting just how enfeebled the economy had become because of weakening demand and a broad-based surge in prices that sent inflation to an eight-year high at 7.79 per cent in April. The slowdown meant that the fourth quarter...
More »The story behind the big GDP-GVA gap -Pragya Srivastava
-Livemint.com Yet again, two measures of India’s economy— ‘gross value added’ and ‘gross domestic product’—have grown at widely different paces. While change in GDP significantly lagged the change in GVA in FY21, the story was opposite in FY22, says data released Tuesday. Mint explains: What is the difference between GVA & GDP? Gross value added (GVA) adds up the value of all goods and services produced in an economy after deducting the input...
More »Forget minimum wages, MGNREGA workers not even receiving notified wages in many states
Every year in the month of either February or March, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announces the notified MGNREGA wage rates (i.e., notified daily wage rates for MGNREGA workers) for various states and Union Territories (UTs) for the upcoming financial year. The MGNREGA rates are notified every year based on the increase in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). Like the previous years, in 2021 too, experts and civil...
More »Data: Rising Inflation & global factors could affect India’s food grain exports after record exports of Rice & Wheat in 2021-22 -Bharath Kancharla
-Factly.in The Government of India recently imposed restrictions on Wheat exports, in a bid to control rising food prices, ensuring domestic food security. However, this comes after India’s record exports of both Rice & Wheat in 2021-22 putting the export targets for 2022-23 in jeopardy. The Government of India recently imposed restrictions on Wheat exports. Among the reasons cited for the imposition of these restrictions are the controlling rising food prices, ensuring...
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