-PTI BUNDI: Cash-starved farmers in Bundi villages - where ATM and bank branches are hard to find - have resorted to the ancient barter system, exchanging wheat and pulses with other commodities. For farmers in the villages it is literally a return to the old days. Wheat is currently being sold for Rs. 21 to 24 per kg but the locals in villages are forced to purchase commodities weighing equal to wheat thus...
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Demonetisation: NHAI to pay Rs 922 crore for toll loss -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will shell out Rs 922 crore to private highway operators for the toll revenue loss they incurred due to suspension of user charge collection from the afternoon of November 9 to the midnight of December 2. Toll collection was suspended across all national highways in the country following demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes on November...
More »The Perils of an Exam-Centric Education System -Avijit Pathak
-TheWire.in CBSE’s prevalent culture of examinations, which is indifferent to the uniqueness of a learner, negates creative articulation and critical thinking and kills the spirit of teaching as a vocation. Once again we have returned to the tyranny of examinations. Although the class ten board exams were made optional in 2011, as the new Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) guideline suggests, from 2018 onwards, it would be compulsory for students to...
More »Has demonetisation hit micro-finance? -MS Sriram
-The Hindu Business Line Kirana and tea shops are doing better than businesses that involve discretionary spending The Micro-finance industry (MFI) is cursed and blessed at the same time. When there were indications that the micro-finance sector is overheating, with high growth rates, multiple lending and oppressive loan recovery practices, the withdrawal of specified bank notes (SBN) hit them. There were reports of Stress from Uttar Pradesh and it appeared that there...
More »With Reduced Access to Healthcare, Demonetisation Deaths Are Likely Far Higher Than Reported -Bharat Dogra
-TheWire.in According to doctors working in hospitals providing low-cost treatment, the number of patients has reduced by about 30% since demonetisation. The recent debate on demonetisation-related deaths has taken place mainly in the context of people who died while waiting in bank queues or collapsed while standing in these queues and died soon after. In addition, there are those whose sudden death is being attributed to Stress from not finding valid currency...
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