-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Saturday that the GDP growth rate under four years of the Modi government is still higher than the growth rate of last four years of UPA. In a series of Tweets, Kumar said, "Growth rate under four years of Modi Government is still higher than the growth rate of last four years of UPA. This is being managed despite...
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The 'c' in Swachh Bharat is caste and Modi needs to address it -Pritha Chatterjee
-ThePrint.in Manual scavenging is a reality and Dalit women, particularly, will be forced to shoulder the burden of cleaning dry pits. Prime Minister Narendra Modi frequently Tweets appreciation for on-ground workers of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA). One such widely shared post was an image of the secretary in the ministry of drinking water and sanitation, Parameswaran Iyer, going down a double-pit toilet in a rural home and cleaning it. He was lauded...
More »Why Indian women don't want to work -Monika Halan
-Livemint.com The home likes the income, but is unwilling to let the woman give up on household work, child care and eldercare duties A long time ago when I was in my first job as a trainee researcher in a magazine, I would take the chartered bus (a working people’s school bus that collects people from a residential area and drops them in an office hub) from home to office. The art...
More »Modi Government's 'Historic' MSP Hike Is Nothing More Than a Band-Aid for Farmers -Ishan Anand
-TheWire.in Not only has year-on-year MSP growth been much higher in previous years, the government still remains silent on how it will manage to increase procurement. The Narendra Modi government recently approved the decision to hike the minimum support price (MSP) for the kharif marketing season for 2018-19. The MSP for paddy has been increased by Rs 200 per quintal, and the MSP has gone up for other crops too. The minister of...
More »Under Modi Government, VIP Hate Speech Skyrockets - By 500% -Nimisha Jaiswal, Sreenivasan Jain and Manas Pratap Singh
-NDTV NDTV scanned nearly 1,300 articles and cross-referenced this with databases. We went through 1,000 recent Tweets of politicians and public figures. New Delhi: The use of hateful and divisive language by high-ranking politicians has increased almost 500% in the past four years, an NDTV data collection exercise has found. The premise of the exercise was simple: it seems not a day, or a week goes by without some senior politician -...
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