-The Hindu ‘Barefoot College’s archives bear testimony to Ms. Lindsay’s methodical and painstaking work’ Manya Jayaram Lindsay, younger sister of social activist Aruna Roy, died in Hitchin, U.K., after suffering from cancer in recent years. She had set up the preventive and curative health structure at the Social Work and Research Centre (SWRC), Tilonia — widely known as the Barefoot College — and studied indigenous people in the U.S. and Australia, and...
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Dream of promised land shattered for M.P. tribals -Sidharth Yadav
-The Hindu State govt. upends park rehabilitation policy, declares 39 displaced families ineligible after 20 years Bhopal: Displaced from his village nestled inside the Madhav National Park in Shivpuri district two decades ago, Jadon Adivasi, 80, still nurses the hope of the promised two-hectare land that he could till, call his own, in another village. “They can’t go back on the promise now. We survived on the hope of owning land for years;...
More »Union Budget 2020-21: Total rural budgetary allocation, including MGNREGA slashed -Jitendra
-Down to Earth This comes even as rural India is suffering its worst unemployment crisis in 45 years The Union government slashed budgetary allocation for its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGA) in the Budget 2020-21, at a time when rural India is facing all sorts of crises including rising food bills and highest unemployment in the last five decades MGNREGA guarantees at least 100 days of employment to adults...
More »Employees' unions oppose govt plan to sell shares in LIC
-PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) will be listed as part of the government disinvestment initiative. LIC employees' unions on Saturday opposed the Centre's plan to sell a part of its shares in the state-run insurance behemoth through an initial public offer (IPO), insisting that the move is "against the national interest". Please click here to read more. ...
More »Rural India reels under economic slump -Avani Kapur, Meghna Paul & Vastav Irava
-Hindustan Times Currently, two of the Government of India’s (GoI) largest schemes focussed on reviving the rural economy have been the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). With food inflation hitting 14% in December 2019 and real rural wages declining for eight consecutive months (latest data available till October), rural India is among the worst hit by the current economic slowdown. Providing...
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