-PTI/ NDTV The observation came during the hearing of a northeast Delhi riots case after one policeman identified three alleged rioters but another said that they could not be identified during the investigation. New Delhi: A trial judge, who has been critical of the "callous and farcical" probe of Delhi police in some riots cases of 2020 and had once observed that failure to conduct a proper investigation will torment "sentinels of...
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29 million students don’t have access to devices: Govt report -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times According to the data, as many as 29.6 million students from 19 states and five UTs were found to be without digital devices during the surveys conducted by these states and UTs. A report released by Union education ministry on Wednesday said that 29 million school students do not have access to digital devices as per data collected from 24 states and Union Territories (UTs) until June -- data that...
More »Why PM-CARES Is a 'Government Fund' and Well Within RTI Purview -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in The Union government submitted before Delhi high court that PM CARES Fund is “not a fund of Government of India and the amount does not go in the Consolidated Fund of India”. While there is enough information already in the public domain to assert that PM-CARES Fund (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation Fund) is controlled by the Government of India, the Union government still wants to maintain...
More »The recent QES estimates are unreliable -R Nagaraj and Radhicka Kapoor
-The Hindu The analysis is fraught with caveats and the interpretation of the survey results calls for caution Last week, the Ministry of Labour and Employment released the results of a new Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for April-June 2021 for the organised (formal) sector. It represents establishments (or units) employing ten or more workers. The surveyed sectors were manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation and restaurant, Information Technology/Business Process Outsourcing (IT/BPO),...
More »Economic lessons for India from the Evergrande crisis in China -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com Real estate must contribute more to our economy and that calls for sectoral reforms and cheap homes Over the past few weeks, the financial and economic world has been worried about the likely collapse of Evergrande, the world’s most-indebted real estate company. At the same time, the bigger issue of China’s dependence for growth on its real-estate sector remains. In a working paper titled, Peak China Housing, Kenneth S. Rogoff and Yuanchen...
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