-The Indian Express Impression that government prioritises non-economic agenda over development must be addressed India is now well and truly in the middle of a socio-economic upheaval. The economy has Been weakening for a couple of years now. The social upheaval is new but its seeds have Been fermenting for a while. The danger here is that the social and economic sides of an economy are not divorced from each other....
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Why sugarcane farmers don't want Brazilian President as chief guest on Republic Day -Joe C Mathew
-Business Today Brazil, a major sugarcane producer, has Been against India's existing scheme to support sugarcane farmers claiming that it was beyond the permissible limits under the WTO regulations Prime minister Narendra Modi-led government's decision to invite Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro as the chief guest of India's Republic Day celebrations on January 26 has Been criticised by All India Sugarcane Farmers' Federation (AISFF), an affiliate of CPIM's farmer body All India...
More »ASER report 2019: More girls in govt schools, boys in private schools -Rajeev Mullick
-Hindustan Times Enrolment patterns of school children have Been brought to light in the fourteenth Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2019) released on Tuesday. Parents prefer to send boys to private schools while government schools are the first choice for girls. This and many more enrolment patterns of school children have Been brought to light in the fourteenth Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2019) released on Tuesday. The report, based on survey...
More »How India remains poor: Has poverty become 'hereditary' -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible Something that has haunted me through my 22 years of reporting the rural India is how some people in certain regions always remain poor. I have visited them multiple times for various assignments, but have always found them talking about poverty. Like me, they too always wonder: “Why do we remain poor?” I have mostly reported...
More »Infant deaths in Kota were not sudden. JK Lon Hospital has always Been understaffed and ill-equipped
-Scroll.in The average occupancy of the hospital is 220%, meaning that at least two patients share each bed. Rukhsaar Bano, 22, gave birth to her first child on December 16, 2019. Beauty, born a healthy 2.7 kg, spiked a fever on December 29, and the new mother took her to JK Lon hospital in Kota, 240 km south of state capital Jaipur. Beauty was two weeks old when she died a few...
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