-TheFederal.com Dalberg research finds women from low-income sections were first to lose jobs and last to regain them due to COVID disruptions While the pandemic was tough on the nation’s poor, the women from the low-income section were dealt a harder blow, research has revealed. As a cash crunch hit household expenses, women’s nutrition, health and employment were the worst hit and the last to recover. A study by consulting firm Dalberg —...
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‘PM CARES has paid only for three-fourths of ventilators ordered in April 2020’ -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu More than 16,000 machines from private manufacturers yet to be installed: Health Ministry data More than a year after the PM CARES fund announced it would buy and distribute 50,000 ventilators for ₹2,000 crore, only ₹1,532 crore has been released, according to a Health Ministry response to a Right to Information request filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd). The remaining money is awaiting clearance from the fund, said an official. A...
More »Women from low-income Indian households ate less amid COVID-19, shows survey
-BusinessToday.in The report showed that 41 per cent women as compared to 37 per cent men saw an increase in unpaid care work. Additionally, 27 per cent women said that they got less Rest as compared to 18 per cent men That women were gravely affected in terms of job opportunities and pay cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic have been reiterated several times by many studies. Now a study by consulting firm...
More »Maharashtra govt to move resolution rejecting Centre's farm laws in monsoon session: Report
-PTI/ Livemint.com The council of ministers also gave its nod to a resolution requesting the Centre to decide about Restoration of the quota for Marathas in government jobs and education Mumbai: Rejection of the three Central agriculture laws is one of the three resolutions approved by the Maharashtra cabinet on Sunday which will be moved in the monsoon session of the state legislature beginning Monday, sources said. The council of ministers also gave...
More »Why States' School Education Laws Are Difficult To Understand -Jayana Bedi and Prashant Narang
-IndiaSpend.com Laws governing schools should be easy enough for students to make sense of them. As states prepare to reform education laws under the National Education Policy, our analysis shows that most states’ education laws are verbose, Restrictive and incomprehensible even to college graduates New Delhi: On April 8, 2021, union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launched the 'Students' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement through Quality Education' (Sarthaq) plan as the first step toward...
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