-Newsclick.in The oil marketing companies are arguing that the continuous increase in prices this week is due to the 15 days trail in domestic prices of fuel as compared to international markets. As a result of the regular hike since the past six days, there is an increase of 0.50 paisa for petrol and 1.04 paisa for diesel all over India. The price of petroleum products had been kept at a moderate...
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In India, who speaks in English, and where? -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com * English speakers are richer, more educated and more likely to be upper caste, data from the Lok Foundation survey shows * Hindi is both the most widely spoken first language and second language in India English speakers are very much India’s elite, and their proportion may be shrinking, new data on the demographic profile of English language speakers in India suggests. The 2011 Census showed English is the primary language—mother tongue—of 256,000...
More »Is 'Right to Work' More Important Than 'Minimum Income Guarantee'? -Dunu Roy
-TheWire.in Various remedies are being suggested to tackle the growing rate of unemployment, but are they in tandem with the needs of the workers? Two issues were concealed under the din of elections. The first is the depth of the agrarian crisis with rising costs, falling prices and diminishing livelihoods. The second is the declining rate of employment in urban India, even within the informal sector, and the tumult among the youth...
More »New government must work to improve health infrastructure -Banjot Kaur
-Down to Earth India’s GDP for health is less than 1.5 per cent and is one of the lowest in the world Health infrastructure, especially in the rural areas, is going to be one of the challenging tasks ahead for the new government. In its last tenure, it brought the Ayushman Bharat scheme — the government run health insurance programme — which was seen as a major health policy intervention. However, according...
More »NDA trounces agrarian crisis to win rural areas -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Despite the rural hinterland being in the throes of agrarian distress, the incumbent coalition has won handsomely in these very areas The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has beaten all odds to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Prominent among these odds was the agrarian crisis that rural India is currently in the throes of. Since 2014, the country has suffered two major droughts and 850-odd...
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