-NDTV.com One of the biggest roadblocks in providing adequate and timely funds to MSMEs is the non-availability of reliable and consolidated Data about them Though government runs a host of schemes to support micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which have faced the maximum brunt of the Coronavirus-induced lockdown in 2020, providing them timely and adequate funds becomes a roadblock, a fact which has been acknowledged even by the Finance Ministry. Funds are...
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Do MGNREGA wages need an upward revision? -Parvathi Benu
-The Hindu Business Line This year, the average wage was hiked by a mere 20 paise to Rs.209.05; workers across States say wages are insufficient to meet their needs The annual increase in the average MGNREGA wages has been quite uneven. While the wages increased between 8 to 10 per cent in FY13, FY14 and FY21, the increase was a mere 1.6 per cent in FY20. Annual increases in individual states have been...
More »Six Indian letters stalled World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Data -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph According to the Union health ministry, India also expressed its concern through five virtual meetings since November 2021 India has sent six letters articulating its concerns about the methodology the World Health Organisation has adopted to estimate the country’s Covid-19 death toll as at least 4 million, or more than seven times the official count of 521,000. Apart from the six letters, India has expressed its concern through five virtual meetings...
More »What’s fuelling higher inflation in rural India? -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu Why are food, clothing and fuel prices higher in the hinterland? Will a good monsoon help ease the crisis? The story so far: The retail inflation rate surged to 6.95% this March — its highest level in nearly one and a half years, capping off six successive months of accelerating prices for consumers. With incremental fuel price hikes only kicking in during the latter half of March, the full impact...
More »India objects to WHO methodology for calculating COVID-19 toll -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu Health Ministry responds to reports of India stalling the world health body’s efforts India has been in regular and in-depth technical exchange with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the issue of collecting and making public the COVID-19 death toll in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday in response to The New York Times article titled India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death...
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