-Livemint.com A failure to protect incomes could widen the gap between have-nots and haves and thus hurt growth When the facts change, I change my mind," John Maynard Keynes is believed to have said almost a century ago. Responding to the economic after-shocks of the covid pandemic, governments and central banks have been living by this maxim. In the UK and US, supposedly fiscally conservative governments have spent with abandon to prop...
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Around 45.6 lakh households did not receive their MGNREGA job cards despite applying for it till November end this year
-Fourth MGNREGA tracker by Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG), released on 10th December, 2020 The latest tracker of the Peoples' Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) focuses on the state of implementation of MGNREGA in the country. Highlights of the Tracker: 1. 1.3 crore Job Cards issued this year. 2. 13 percent unmet demand. 97 lakh households have had their demand unmet at some point in the year. 3. While over 1 crore more Households...
More »Employment contracts by 2.4% in November: CMIE -Chitranjan Kumar
-BusinessToday.in On month-on-month basis, employment declined by 0.9 per cent or 3.5 million in November, as against 0.1 per cent or 0.6 million fall registered in October Employment in India contracted for the second consecutive month in November, raising questions on the recent optimism around recovery in job markets in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic. In November, the count of the employed fell by 0.9 per cent or 3.5 million, as against...
More »State Govt Documents Belie Nitish Kumar's Claim on Grain Procurement in Bihar -Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in In a letter to the Centre, Bihar's agriculture secretary said that farmers were forced to sell their produce at low prices due to lack of go-downs and procurement facilities. New Delhi: Even as protests by farmers continue unabated against the three agriculture laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has spoken in favour of the Centre’s move claiming that the new laws are being implemented across...
More »Poor account for 71% of custodial deaths in India
-The Hindu Celebrities or rich people often get reprieve by claiming to suffer from kleptomania, says anti-torture group Data culled from the annual reports of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from 1996-97 to 2017-18 have revealed that 71.58% of the custodial deaths in India were of people from poor or marginalised sections of society, said a statement by an anti-torture group issued on Thursday to mark the United Nations Human Rights...
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