-PTI The Wholesale PRIce Index (WPI) based inflation was at 2.93% in February. It was 2.74% in March 2018. Wholesale PRIce-based inflation rose for the second consecutive month to 3.18% in March on costlier food and fuel, government data released on Monday showed. The Wholesale PRIce Index (WPI) based inflation was at 2.93% in February. It was 2.74% in March 2018. Inflation in food articles hardened with steep rise in PRIces of vegetables during...
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Veil on job data spurs poser: How deep is the crisis? -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Demand for work under the MGNREGA was at its highest in the 2018-19 fiscal The job crisis has deepened and become more commonplace during the last five years, according to officials familiar with employment data. Consider this: Demand for work under the national job scheme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), was at its highest in the 2018-19 fiscal. Started in 2006 to provide a fallback employment source to...
More »Record paddy procurement may pay off for Congress in Chhattisgarh -Sidharth Yadav & PRIscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Raipur: Selling his paddy crop was a pleasantly different experience this year for Yogesh Nareti, a farmer with 17 acres of land in Makadi village in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, which goes to the polls this week. “During the BJP reign, selling the produce at Large-sized Agricultural Multipurpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPS) was tedious. The entire process used to take two months,” he recalls. “Now, besides offering a lucrative MSP [minimum support...
More »Universal basic income not a panacea for poverty -Piyush Kamal
-The Pioneer In the absence of any sunset clause or distinct feature to identify the beneficiaries who succeed in climbing themselves out of poverty, the scheme of direct cash transfer as an income support welfare measure and as a potent tool of empowerment does not sound convincing even on paper Thanks to the proposal for the universal basic income, it has become a topic for discussion as one-fifth population of this country...
More »Food inflation falls to lowest level since 1991 -Surojit Gupta
-The Times of India Average food PRIces in 2018-19 were almost the same as they were in 2017-18—a phenomenon not seen for at least 27 years. An analysis by credit rating agency Crisil shows food inflation measured by the consumer PRIce index rose only 0.1% in 2018-19. The last time annual food inflation had fallen below 1% was in 1999-2000. Economists attribute low food PRIces to a string of factors including bumper...
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