-Observer Research Foundation The Modi government needs to urgently revisit the opaque and draconian cattle trade rules. n the wake of a number of well-publicised incidents of lynching and mob violence, most of them related to issues surrounding cattle trade or beef consumption, a narrative — Lynchistan — has taken hold that there’s been a spike in the incidents of lynchings and mob violence. In one telling, such violence has increased after...
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Cow-Related Violence: 86% Dead Since 2010 Are Muslim; 97% Attacks Reported After 2014 -Delna Abraham and Ojaswi Rao
-TheWire.in/ IndiaSpend About half the cases of cow-related violence – 32 of 63 – were from states governed by the BJP at the time, eight were run by the Congress and the rest by other parties. Muslims were the target of 51% of violence centered on bovine issues over nearly eight years (2010 to 2017) and comprised 86% of 28 Indians killed in 63 incidents, according to an IndiaSpend content analysis of...
More »581 mn Indians in country's 9 poorest states live without proper healthcare -Ojaswi Rao
-Business Standard/ IndiaSpend Seven of the nine 'high-focus' states report underspending on healthcare Nine of India’s poorest states–home to 581 million or 48% of India’s population–account for 70% of the country’s infant deaths, 75% of under-five deaths and 62% of maternal deaths, but do not spend even the money they have set aside for healthcare, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of 2017 Reserve Bank of India data on state budgets. The data also...
More »Why risks to inflation in India are on the rise -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com There is a growing risk that inflation may spike in the coming months The sharp drop in prices of farm products over the past few months has not just upset farmers across the country, but also seems to have complicated the task of India’s monetary authorities. The minutes of the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show that the committee is divided...
More »Farmer suicides: 70% of India's farm families spend more than they earn -Devanik Saha
-IndiaSpend.org The failing economics of such farms–agricultural households in the south are most indebted–are exacerbated by additional loans that families take to meet health issues, leaving them with diminished ability to invest in farming. Nearly 70% of India’s 90 million agricultural households spend more than they earn on average each month, pushing them towards debt, which is now the primary reason in more than half of all suicides by farmers nationwide,...
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