-The Hindu The ‘development’ discourse serves the same purpose as the colonial apparatus but without the bad press. After 67 years of failing to eliminate deprivation in India, is it time to look for new ideas? The Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, which hit the headlines earlier this month, tells us that half the households in rural India are landless, dependant on casual manual labour, and live in deprivation. By suggesting...
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Landlessness key to rural deprivation, census says -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Landlessness and dependence on manual casual labour for a livelihood are key deprivations facing rural families, socio-economic census figures suggest. This, experts say, means they are far more vulnerable to impoverishment than indicated by a plain reading of the Census data. While 48.5 per cent of all rural households are saddled with at least one deprivation indicator, the eye-opener is how much the other factors overlap with...
More »670 Million In Rural Areas Live On Rs 33 Per Day -Saumya Tewari
-IndiaSpend.com More than 70 million rural households face some form of exclusion, either from assets or socio-economic benefits, according to data released by the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) survey last week. As many as 833 million Indians, or 69% of the population, live in rural areas. The SECC report comes at a time when global credit rating agencies, such as Moody’s, have warned that slow growth in rural India may cripple the...
More »Delhi lacks policy to look after disabled -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Nearly 2% of the population of Delhi falls in the persons with disability category. However, 20 years after passing of the Persons with Disabilities Act 1995, there is no state policy on disability in place in the national capital. The Act was notified by the Delhi government in 2001, but successive governments have done little beyond that. While it took three years to just constitute the...
More »Socio-economic caste census: Numbers not being revealed to hide upper caste dominance in governance? -Rajesh Ramachandran
-The Economic Times Nobody has ever accused former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav of number crunching. All his life he has milked cows and caste without ever needing to count. Yet, he is all set to lead a protest march in Patna on July 13 seeking the publication of caste data in the socio-economic caste census. If the other big Yadav chieftain, Mulayam Singh Yadav, rakes it up in Uttar...
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