-NetWorkIdeas.org Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation and greater unemployment. Of course the Federal Reserve Board of the US which sets the standard in this respect for all other central banks, claims...
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Bicycles left behind by migrant Workers during Covid lockdown auctioned for ₹21 lakh -S Raju
-Hindustan Times During the Covid pandemic-induced lockdown in early 2020, nearly 25,000 migrant Workers reached Saharanpur on bicycles while heading back to their native places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from their places of Work in Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Meerut: The Saharanpur district administration has auctioned 5,400 bicycles left behind by migrant Workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar while rushing home during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of...
More »NCEE alleges that textbook revision in Karnataka is an unnecessary, divisive, and costly exercise
-Press statement by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated June 2, 2022 We strongly urge the Government of Karnataka to: 1. Revoke the recent revisions to the textbooks, which are regressive in nature, and have been done in an arbitrary manner, without adherence to well-defined curriculum frameWork and processes. 2. Print and supply the textbooks which have been in use for many years, post the last revision. 3. Focus energies on...
More »A case for community-oriented health services -Chandrakant Lahariya
-The Hindu The recent global recognition for India’s ASHAs should be used as a chance to iron out the challenges in the programme India’s one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) volunteers have received arguably the biggest international recognition in form of the World Health Organization’s Global Health Leaders Awards 2022. The ASHAs were among the six awardees announced at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This World Health Organization (WHO)...
More »Around 31 mn households demand Work under MGNREGA in May, up 11% YoY -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard The figure is also much higher than the corresponding pre-Covid period, data shows Around 31 million households have demanded Work under the flagship MGNREGA in the month of May this year, which is almost 11 per cent more than the same period last year and much higher than the corresponding pre-Covid period, data sourced from the website showed today. In April 2022, around 23.26 million households have sought Work under the...
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