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Real wage rates of the rural workers hardly increased during the last 6 years

In the absence of income or expenditure-based headcount ratio, the growth in the real wages (i.e., nominal wages adjusted against retail inflation) of the manual workers is considered to be a good proxy to assess the trends in poverty. This is because the manual, unskilled/ semi-skilled labourers exist at the bottom of the pyramid or economic hierarchy, and most of them belong to the social categories Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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No wilting heat of farmers’ rage -Priscilla Jebaraj

-The Hindu Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt After attracting thousands of farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls.  In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP...

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Yogi govt's ration incentive to arrest dent in UP vote bank -Nalin Verma

-The Telegraph The dole of ghee, salt, gram and cash is likely to work with some segments of voters Bareilly: One-kilo packets of ghee, salt and black gram along with the 5kg rice or wheat provided free against ration cards. Mixed with a generous portion of the Karnataka hijab controversy. That’s the cocktail the BJP is serving in Uttar Pradesh to arrest the dent in its vote bank. “The Yogi Adityanath government has added...

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Unemployment and unlimited data pack — UP’s youth are neither angry nor idle -Jyoti Yadav

-ThePrint.in Afternoons are to charge phone batteries, evenings are to play digital games in parks, and nights are to climb rooftops, catch network, and escape into videos and Insta reels. Prayagraj/ Lucknow: Afternoons are for charging phone batteries up to 100 per cent, evenings are for playing digital games in sportsgrounds, and nights are for climbing rooftops to catch the network signal. This is when mobile data is the cheapest and fastest,...

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NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands a hike in MGNREGA Budget for FY 2022-23

-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 30 January, 2022 The stress on the economy became evident, especially in the aftermath of the raging pandemic from the 7.3% contraction in GDP in 2020-21. The distress faced by poorer households has continued over a period of time with the pandemic acting as a catalyst in increasing the woes of such households. In a latest round of survey conducted by People’s Research on...

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