-TheWire.in While the nitty-gritties of GST work are handled by the council, slippage in revenues are a result of poor design, which is why a road map for reforming the GST is needed. I don’t envy finance minister Arun Jaitley. The fiscal situation is looking rather grim, with the fiscal deficit target amount for the entire year having already been exceeded by 12 percentage points, with a full quarter of the fiscal...
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Three googlies make India's crime statistics deceptive -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India Here's a safe bet to make: the crime rate in India's big cities will fall in 2021. Every year, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) presents data for the number of crime incidents in Indian cities. The bureau also provides crime rates, which is the number of crime incidents per lakh of population. Giving the rate is a good idea because it allows us to compare cities with...
More »Kalahandi forest dwellers allege FRA violation by state forest department -Shruti Agarwal and Ishan Kukreti
-Down to Earth Activists say that in 3 villages of Kalahand district, the Odisha forest department is imposing on the rights of forest dwellers to dispose bamboo, guaranteed under FRA More than two weeks after the cabinet cleared an amendment in the India Forest Act, 1927 (IFA) to deregulate trade of bamboo grown on non-forest land, forest dwellers from Odisha are complaining that the state forest department is not letting them...
More »Farmer's suicide numbers drop for second consecutive year in six districts: Govt data
-The Indian Express Yavatmal, known to be the suicide capital of Vidarbha, has also shown a drop from last year’s 272 to 225 this year. The district had registered 386 suicides in 2015, an all time record for any district. Nagpur: Even as the ruling and Opposition parties slug it out in the state legislative Assembly, and outside, over farmers’ suicide, government statistics have shown a trend of decreasing numbers for the...
More »A job crisis, in figures -Radhicka Kapoor
-The Indian Express Multiple data sets confirm sluggish pace of employment creation. Paucity of data can no longer be an excuse for the lack of debate. Jobs are an integral part of India’s political narrative today. This is unsurprising because the NDA came to power on the promise of creating a large number of jobs for India’s rapidly rising work force. However, much of the debate on employment performance over the last...
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