-The Hindu Can Aadhaar be the one-stop solution for all identification requirements? Does it safeguard the privacy of its various beneficiaries? The story so far: Two days after issuing an advisory asking people to refrain from sharing photocopies of their Aadhaar Card, the Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) opted to withdraw the notification. It stated that the action was to avert any possibility of ‘misinterpretation’ of the (withdrawn) press release,...
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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...
More »Needed, education Data that engages the poor parent -Priyadarshini Singh
-The Hindu What India lacks — and needs — is Data which can hold the local vision of education and local actors accountable When the children of the poor cannot read and write, when they do not play and dance in school, can the poor speak and demand change? We gather Data on enrolments, retention, learning, infrastructure, and teacher training to understand the state of our public school system. But is data...
More »Why Telangana’s inflation is high compared to other states -Paul Oommen
-TheNewsMinute.com Telangana is among four states that have recorded the highest inflation in terms of Consumer Price Index, as per Data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). In April, when the country’s retail inflation surged to an eight-year-high of 7.79%, state-wise Data showed that Telangana had one of the highest inflation rate in the country: 9.02%. It was behind two other states—West Bengal which had 9.12% and Madhya Pradesh with 9.10%....
More »Forget minimum wages, MGNREGA workers not even receiving notified wages in many states
Every year in the month of either February or March, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announces the notified MGNREGA wage rates (i.e., notified daily wage rates for MGNREGA workers) for various states and Union Territories (UTs) for the upcoming financial year. The MGNREGA rates are notified every year based on the increase in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). Like the previous years, in 2021 too, experts and civil...
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