-Firstpost.com The year is due to end, and the report card for India's flagship financial inclusion programme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana for 2018 is out. Before diving into the specifics of the programme, it would be useful to remember that the year has been revelatory with regard to women's issues, from the #MeToo movement to the 217 years that it will apparently take to close the gender pay gap. In...
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-The Hindu Business Line NITI Aayog’s document sets out economic goals, but there’s no roadmap The NITI Aayog’s Strategy for New India @75 lays out a checklist of priorities for economic policy-makers over the next three years. It sets out as an immediate priority, the ramping up of the investment rate to 36 per cent of the GDP by 2022, from 29 per cent at present in order to hit a growth...
More »Crisis of Inequality Gripping India
-Newsclick.in The fourth edition of the India Exclusion Report comes down heavily on demonetisation and its impact on the poor. New Delhi: The fourth edition of the India Exclusion Report, released here on Tuesday, points towards glaring inequalities gripping the nation and delves deeper into the identification of the sites of inequality. Releasing the report, Harsh Mander, Director of Center for Equity Studies, said, “each chapter in it is best seen as evidence-based...
More »Supreme Court orders CBI probe against all shelter homes in Bihar -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed CBI probe against all erring shelter homes and their owners for allegedly subjecting the children to torture and sexual abuse after noting that state police investigation was not up to the mark. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta directed the CBI to probe into all allegation of torture and sexual abuse of children...
More »Not MSP, income support will help farmers: Agri economist Ashok Gulati -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Providing income security to farmers and boosting investment in agriculture are the two things that are needed to help Indian farmers in distress, said noted agricultural economist Ashok Gulati on Monday. “While there can’t be two opinions about the farmers’ plight in our country, increasing minimum support price (MSP) cannot be the solution. We may have to bring in science and our understanding to solve their...
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