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Data, interrupted: On official household spending survey

-The Hindu Reviving the official household spending survey is only a first step India’s official statistical machinery is gearing up to relaunch the All-India Household Consumer Expenditure Survey, traditionally undertaken quinquennially, from July 2022. If it fructifies, the result may be known towards the latter half of 2024, provided the Government permits the release. The last such Survey (2017-18), did not get such a sanction — its results reportedly indicated the first...

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Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?

On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...

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Delhi Ranks 3rd In Per capita income, Behind Sikkim, Goa: Economic Survey

-NDTV.com/ PTI The survey also said that Delhi's GDP at current prices increased by about 50 per cent in the last six years from Rs.6,16,085 crore in 2016-17 to Rs.9,23,967 crore in 2021-22. New Delhi: Delhi ranked third in terms of Per capita income behind Sikkim and Goa, according to the Economic Survey of Delhi 2021-22. The survey also said that Delhi's GDP at current prices increased by about 50 per cent in...

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India’s new budget: much fanfare, missed opportunity -Happy Pant and Sarah Farooqui

-CBGA Blog India presented its latest Union Budget (for FY 2022 -23) in early February amid much hope, as the country is still reeling from the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, which has lasted for two years. To deal with the pandemic induced socio-economic crisis, countries across the world  have been announcing policy measures outside of their annual budgets. The Indian government, too, made many such announcements, but given the scale of the...

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Reviving the ‘Kerala Model’ of development -Shashi Tharoor and Vinod Thomas

-The Hindu Its lustre is fading as there are threats from emerging social and environmental risks, but the question is how Kerala has long been recognised to have done many things right. For years the darling of development experts, non-governmental organisations and social activists, the ‘Kerala Model’ seemed to show that impressive levels of human development indicators — in health, education and quality of life, comparable even to some rich countries —...

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