-The Hindu It is astonishing that public expenditure data on the education sector are not easily available In the current Budget session, how much money the Central and State governments will allocate to education and for what purpose should be a matter of public concern and debate. Even before the pandemic, public spending on education in most States was below that of other middle-income countries. Most major States spent in the range...
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Tale of two Indias: Income of Poorest 20% Tanks 53% in 5 years, Richest 20% Rises 39%
-Newsclick.in The poorest, whose annual income surged by 183% between 2005 and 2016, have been most impacted by COVID-19, shows survey In a K-shaped economic recovery since COVID-19 hit India, there was a massive plunge of 53% in the annual income of the poorest 20% of Indian households from 2015-16 to 2020-21. Besides the drastic fall in their annual income, which was rising since 1995, the share of the poorest 20% in...
More »NCEE questions Govt.'s reluctance in opening schools despite the lifting of curfew in Bengaluru
-Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated January 22, 2022 Schools in Bengaluru remain closed while malls, theatres, pubs and restaurants have been kept open. As of 21 January, the weekend curfew has been lifted as well. The decision to keep schools closed is having catastrophic consequences on children. Schools had only recently started opening after remaining mostly closed since March 2020. Their being closed again spells...
More »Poor Country With Affluent Elite, India Is Going Nowhere -Jayati Ghosh
- The India Cable/ TheWire.in India is now one of the most unequal countries for both income and wealth inequality — and has shown the most rapid increases in inequality. The Paris-based World Inequality Lab has become a major source of data on global inequality, based on careful aggregation of national data from a multitude of sources, of both income and wealth inequality, at national, regional and global levels. Their latest World...
More »In Bastar, a fear that school shutdowns help Maoist recruitment -Ritesh Mishra
-Hindustan Times In the last of its five part series on the pandemic, school shutdowns and its effects on India’s children, HT travelled to Bastar to find that not only could this mean the usual learning loss, or problems with the lack of connectivity, but a deeper, more worrying malaise. Bijapur: There is a main road that runs close by, but the government school in Bhairamgarh is hidden from view. The campus...
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