-ThePrint.in The scholars slammed the Modi govt for ‘political influence’, pointing at the decision to withhold NSSO jobs data and to alter GDP data from the UPA era. New Delhi: A group of 108 economists and social scientists came together Thursday to protest against what they said was the Narendra Modi government’s move to revise or withhold the release of unfavourable economic data. The NDA government has been under fire for its...
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Even Mudra job survey data put in deep freeze -Amitav Ranjan
-The Indian Express “The number of jobs created under the Mudra scheme will be released after the polls as the Expert Committee found anomalies in the methodology used by the Bureau in arriving at the findings,” sources said. The Labour Bureau’s survey on the number of jobs created under the Micro Units Development & Refinance Agency (Mudra) scheme will not be made public for another two months making this the third...
More »UNEMPLOYMENT is a silent political killer and can catch the BJP off guard in polls -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in UNEMPLOYMENT can become big and yet remain undetected. Its impact can lead to a critical vote swing. Is UNEMPLOYMENT going to be the silent political killer in this election? This must be our first question, as we limp back from heightened national security anxiety towards other regular concerns in this first week after the formal announcement of the 17th Lok Sabha elections. Every available evidence points to this possibility. But as...
More »Swaraj is the kisan's birthright and he should have it -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Agrarian crisis is an opportunity, for the government that assumes office after elections, to enact a law giving farmers the right to sell any quantity of their produce to anybody, anywhere and at any time. The German obsession with sound currency has been conditioned by the collective memory of the Great Hyperinflation of 1922-23, just as American intolerance to double-digit UNEMPLOYMENT and stock market crashes is traceable to...
More »'Government isn't able to provide even small jobs': UNEMPLOYMENT, anger in Jaipur's informal sector -Madhav Sharma
-Scroll.in Effects of demonetisation and GST continue to be felt across the country on the eve of the elections At three grimy market squares in India’s pink city of sandstone palaces, the fates of a former farming couple, a former factory owner, and a graduate illustrated how difficult it now is to find even a job of hard labour, as a general election looms in a country witnessing record UNEMPLOYMENT. It had been...
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